Steven Richter
Steven Richter is a German discus thrower. The 2025 [European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's discus throw|2023 European under-23 champion], he competed at the 2023 [World Athletics Championships|2023] and 2025 World Athletics Championships and was a silver medalist at the Athletics at the [2025 Summer World University Games – Men's discus throw|2025 University Games].
Career
From Gelenau, he is a member of LV 90 Erzgebirge. He won the men's U23 event at the 2023 European Throwing Cup in Leiria, Portugal with a personal best throw of 64.23m.He retained his men's U23 title at the 2024 European Throwing Cup in Leiria, improving throughout the competition with his final throw being 61.00 metres. He competed for Germany at the 2023 [World Athletics Championships – Men's discus throw| 2023 World Athletics Championships] in Budapest, but did not reach the final of the men's discus throw.
He won the men's U23 event at the 2025 European Throwing Cup in Nicosia, Cyprus, winning the competition initially with a 60.46m before improving with a 60.72m throw with the competition's final throw. He threw a personal best 69.61m in Ramona, Oklahoma in April 2025.
He won the gold medal at the 2025 [European Athletics U23 Championships] in Bergen, leading a German 1-2-3 in the event, ahead of compatriots Mika Sosna and Marius Karges. He won the silver medal behind Sosna at the 2025 Summer [World University Games] in Bochum.
In September 2025, he competed in the discus throw at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, without advancing to the final. After placing small bets on athletics totally €40, he received a three-month suspended ban from the Athletics Integrity Unit, backdated to September 2025, with a "lack of education on betting" rules considered as "one of several mitigating factors in arriving at the sanctions" alongside early admission, genuine remorse, and having previously possessed a clean disciplinary record. His Germany teammate Henrik Janssen received an identical suspended ban.