Heike Hartwig
Heike Hartwig (born Dittrich; born December 30, 1962 in Bernburg (Saale ) ) is a former track and field athlete from the German Democratic Republic. The shot putter from the SC Dynamo Berlin since 1981 was represented at GDR championships from 1984 to 1990, she represented the GDR at international championships. After the turn she remained until 1993 when OSC Berlin active.
Career
Her first international championships were the Indoor Athletics Championships 1984 in Gothenburg, where she took under her birth name with 19.50m sixth place. In 1985, she won, now as Heike Hartwig starting in the hall, their first East German champion. At the European Indoor Championships in Piraeus she pushed the ball to 19.93 m and reached a bronze. Outdoors the runner-up in the GDR was behind Ines Müller.
In the indoor season 1986, she also took in the GDR championships second place, this time behind Heidi Krieger, outdoors Ines Müller was again in front of her. At the European Athletics Championships in Stuttgart Warriors won the title ahead of Müller, Heike Hartwig finished fifth with 20.14 m. In 1987 she won the East German championship in the indoor and outdoor.
At the European Indoor Championships 1987 in Liévin she received with 20,00 m bronze, two inches behind Heidi Krieger in second place. At the World Athletics Championships in Rome Heike Hartwig scored a shock to 20.63 m, with whom she nevertheless finished only sixth place, 13 centimeters behind Ines Müller third.
On 16 May 1988 Heike Hartwig succeeded in Athens with 21.31 m of the longest shock of her career, a week later she came in Chania 21.27 m. At GDR championships outdoors 1988 Heike Hartwig finished third behind Kathrin Neimke and Ines Müller, ensure that these three women were shot putter qualified for the Olympic Games. At the Olympic Games in Seoul Neimke won with 21,07 m Silver, Heike Hartwig was sixth with 20,20 m.
1989 won Heike Hartwig as 1987 in the GDR championships in indoor and outdoor. At the European Indoor Championships in The Hague in mid-February she won with 20.03 m in second place behind Stephanie Storp from Wolfsburg. 14 days later found the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Budapest. Storp 19.63 m and 19.44 m with Hartwig took places four and five, ranked in the top three places with Claudia Losch, Huang Zhihong and Christa meadow poking three channels which had not been present in The Hague. In 1990, Heike Hartwig outdoors the title at the last GDR championships. At the European Championships in Split she won with 18.90 m in sixth place and was only the fifth-best German. European champion was a young shot putter who did not compete in the GDR championships: Astrid Kumbernuss.
Heike Hartwig had a competition weight of 95 kg at a height of 1,81 m.