Birgit Süß

Birgit Sweet ( born March 29, 1962 in Halle ( Saale), after marriage Birgit Saul ) is a former German gymnast devices. Your home club was the SC Chemie Halle.

Birgit Sweet belonged at the World Championships in 1978 in Strasbourg to the East German team that won together with Steffi Kräker, Silvia Hindorff, Karola Sube, Heike Kunhardt and Birte Wittwer behind the Soviet team and the Romanians bronze. In the individual competition, they finished 15th place. They also reached two apparatus finals and showed places 7 and 8 at the bottom on the uneven bars. After they did not belong to DDR squad at the World Championships in 1979, she returned at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow in the team back. Together with Maxi Gnauck, Catherine Rensch, Steffi Kräker, Silvia Hindorff and Karola Sube she won the bronze medal behind the squads from the Soviet Union and Romania. In the individual competition of the multi struggle she was ranked 17th from sixth in the qualification they would have reached the apparatus finals at the horse jump. From each team but were only allowed two gymnasts in the apparatus finals and both Steffi Kräker and Maxi Gnauck were available Birgit Sweet. The World Championships in 1981 found such as the Olympic Games in the year before in Moscow. Maxi Gnauck, Steffi Kräker, Annett Lindner, Birgit Sweet, Franka and Birgit Voigt Senff won bronze behind the Soviet Union and the Chinese team.

After completing her medical studies, she completed a specialist training in laboratory diagnosis. She is now employed as a laboratory director of a clinic group.