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| Nationality | German |
| Born | 2 May 1942 Dankmarshausen, Thuringia, Germany |
| Spouse | Werner Franke |
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| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Discus throw |
Brigitte Berendonk (born 2 May 1942) is a German athlete. She competed in the women's discus throw at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics. [1]
Marita Koch is a German former sprint track and field athlete. During her career she set 16 world records in outdoor sprints as well as 14 world records in indoor events. Her record of 47.60 in the 400 metres, set on 6 October 1985, still stands.
Brigitte McMahon-Huber is an athlete from Switzerland, who competed in triathlon.
Heike Gabriela Drechsler is a German former track and field athlete who represented East Germany and later Germany. One of the most successful long jumpers of all-time, she is a former world record holder and ranks third on the all-time list with her legal best of 7.48 metres in 1988. Her marginally wind-assisted jump of 7.63 metres (+2.1) in 1992 at altitude in Sestriere, is still the furthest a woman has ever long jumped. She is the only woman who has won two Olympic gold medals in the long jump, winning in 1992 and 2000.
Brigitte Wujak, née Künzel is a retired long jumper who represented East Germany with the SC Dynamo Berlin.
Andreas Krieger is a German former shot putter who competed on the women's East German athletics team at SC Dynamo Berlin as Heidi Krieger.
Lutz Dombrowski is a former German track and field athlete and Olympic champion.
Werner Wilhelm Franke was a German biologist and a professor of cell and molecular biology at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. He was an anti-doping pioneer in Germany.
Margitta Gummel was a German Olympic gold medal-winning shot putter. She competed for the Unified German team in the 1964 Summer Olympics, East Germany in the 1968 Summer Olympics, and East Germany again at the 1972 Summer Olympics. She had a long rivalry with Nadezhda Chizhova of the Soviet Union.
Brigitte Köhn is a retired East German sprinter who specialised in the 400 metres and later 400 metres hurdles.
Volker Mai is a former triple jumper who represented East Germany. Representing SC Neubrandenburg, he holds the current world junior record with 17.50 metres, achieved on 23 June 1985 in Erfurt.
Zdeňka Bartoňová-Šilhavá is a retired female track and field athlete from the Czech Republic, who set the world record in the women's discus throw on 26 August 1984 with a distance of 74.56 metres (244.6 ft). That mark still is the national record.
The government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) conducted a decades-long program of coercive administration and distribution of performance-enhancing drugs, initially testosterone, later mainly anabolic drugs, to its elite athletes. The aim of the program, which began in the 1960s, was to bolster East Germany's state image and prestige by winning medals in international competition such as the Olympic Games.
Brigitte Irene Ahrenholz was a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Brigitte Fetzer is a German former volleyball player who competed for East Germany in the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Karl Kowanz was an Austrian footballer and coach. He played for Austria at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Karl Kowanz was the father of the internationally renowned artist Brigitte Kowanz.
Brigitte Schuchardt is a retired German swimmer who won a bronze medal in the 100 m breaststroke at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships, as well as gold and silver medals in medley events at the 1970 European Aquatics Championships. She also participated in the 1972 Summer Olympics in three individual events but did not reach the finals.
Brigitte Wagner is a retired amateur German freestyle wrestler, who competed in the women's flyweight category. Considering one of the world's top female freestyle wrestlers in her decade, Wagner has claimed a gold and a silver medal in the 48-kg division at the World Championships, and seized an opportunity to compete for Germany at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Throughout her sporting career, Wagner trained full-time as a member of the wrestling squad for Siegfried Sports Club in Hallbergmoos, under her coach and four-time Olympian Jürgen Scheibe.
Sigrid Ulbricht is a German former track and field athlete who competed in the long jump for East Germany. She was the champion at the IAAF World Cup and European Cup in 1981 and represented her country at the Olympic Games in 1980.
Marion Reichelt is a German female former track and field athlete who competed in the long jump and heptathlon for East Germany. She was a heptathlon silver medallist at the European Cup Combined Events in 1987 and set a personal best score of 6442 points, ranking seventh on the world lists for that season. She placed sixth at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics in her only global senior performance. She holds a long jump best of 6.66 m.
Brigitte Kiesler was a German gymnast. She competed in seven events at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
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