were a 60 m lifetime best and Swiss record of 6.61 seconds and a semi-final placing in the event at the 1986 European Athletics Indoor Championships. That year he married Helen Barnett, a fellow sprinter and British Olympian. Burkart missed the opportunity to run at the 1988 Seoul Olympics due to an injury, but rebounded with a personal best of 10.39 seconds in 1989. That same year he won the 100 m "B" final section at the 1989 European Cup. He represented Switzerland at the 1990 European Athletics Indoor Championships and the 1990 European Athletics Championships and knocked a further hundredth off his 100 m best that year. He failed to make it out of the 60 m heats at the 1992 European Athletics Indoor Championships but had the best outdoor season of his career, setting a 100 m best and Swiss national record of 10.32 seconds as well as a 200 metres best of 20.76 seconds. This earned him his Olympic debut at the age of 34 and he was a quarter-finalist in both the sprints. He qualified for the 1993 World Championships in Athletics the following year, but did not start due to injury. Burkart reached the quarter-finals of the 100 m at the 1994 European Athletics Championships and matched that feat at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics. He also won the "C" final section at the 1994 European Cup. In 1996 he claimed his tenth Swiss title in the 60 m and his ninth title in the 100 m. He also qualified for his second Olympics at the 1996 Atlanta Games. He failed to make it past the first round but he became the oldest male athlete ever to compete in the 100 metres at the Olympics. After that season he largely retired from athletics, but made further appearances at the Swiss Indoor Championships, competing in 1999 and finally in 2002. He also won the 100 m in the over-40s division at the 2002 European Veterans Athletics Championships. Bobsled and coaching career Burkart was approached by Swiss bobsledder Christian Meili and sprinter-turned-bobsledder René Mangold in 1995 and they urged him to try out the winter sport. He competed in the Swiss team in 4-man bobsleigh at the Bobsleigh European Championship and Bobsleigh World Cup from 1998 to 2002. Burkart soon began to focus on training younger bobsledders and athletes in the late 1990s with Fredi Steinmann.