Petra Uhlig

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Olympic medal record
Olympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1976 Montreal Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1980 Moscow Team
World Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1971 Netherlands
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1975 Soviet Union
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1978 Czechoslovakia

Petra Uhlig (born 22 July 1954) is a former East German handball player. She won the World Championship three times with the East German national team. She also competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics. She has the record for most matches for the East German national team and the third most matches for any German team behind Michaela Erler and Grit Jurack with 284 games and 487 goals. [1] She debuted for the East German national team at the age of 17.

In 1976 she won the silver medal with the East German team. She played all five matches and scored five goals.

Four years later she won the bronze medal as a member of the East German. She played all five matches and scored six goals.

At club level she played for SC Leipzig, where she won 7 national championships and the European Champions Cup.

In 1984 she was awarded the DDR Patriotic Order of Merit in gold, [2] and was chosen as East German player of the year. [3]

Her daughter Alexandra Uhlig is also a handball player. [4]

References

  1. "DHB-News 03.04.2010: Medieninfo zur EM-Qualifikation der Frauen in Dessau" (in German). German Handball Association. Archived from the original on 20 June 2012. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
  2. . Neues Deutschland. 2 September 1984. p. 4.{{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ""Bester Handballer" / "Beste Handballerin" (DDR)" (in German). Handball in der DDR. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  4. "Thüringer HC: Uhlig kommt - Höhne, Minevskaja und Leukefeld bleiben" (in German). Handball-world. 3 March 2006. Retrieved 30 March 2025.