Ingrid Krämer

Ingrid Krämer- Gulbin ( born July 29, 1943 in Dresden) is a former German water jumper, who won three gold medals in 1964 and a silver medal for East Germany at the Summer Olympic Games in 1960 and Summer Olympic Games.

Sporting career

She had begun with the performance athletic training at the age of 12 years. At 15, she became in 1958 the GDR champion from the 3 -meter board. She trained at the Sports Club unit Dresden under Eveline Sibinski. Later, she started for the sports club Empor Rostock.

Olympic Games 1960

Under her birth name Ingrid Krämer she became the 17 -year-old at the Summer Olympic Games in Rome in 1960, the victory in both contests in the water jump - from 3- m- board and from the 10 - m tower. So they broke the winning streak of the USA Springer, who had taken up to that point all Olympic medals since 1924. The victories came as a surprise to the scientific community, because the United States - jumpers had previously won 40 of 51 possible medals in the Olympic Diving.

An Olympic double victory is until 36 years later the Chinese Fu Mingxia succeeded by Ingrid Krämer at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

Ingrid Krämer started in an all-German Olympic Team, where the best athletes of the then separate the two German states were represented. Following her Olympic success, she was elected not only in the GDR, but also in the Federal Republic to the Sportswoman of the Year. After her spectacular success, she received the exceptional permission to make up a high school in private lessons.

Summer Olympic Games in 1964

At the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 1964, she took after her marriage ( and move to Rostock) in part under the name Ingrid Angel Chandler. She wore for the joint German team the German flag ( black, red and gold with Olympic rings ) during the opening ceremony, launched in both disciplines of water jumping and won the gold medal from the 3 -meter board and a silver medal from the 10 - m tower.

Other life stages

Because previously frequently occurred injury she jumped after the Olympic Games in 1964 never again from the 10 - m tower, but only from the 3 -meter board. After the birth of her first daughter in 1966 she was winner of the 1967 Diving at the European Cup in Helsinki.

She divorced, remarried, and since 1968 is known under the name Ingrid Krämer- Gulbin. The preparation for the Olympic Summer Games in 1968 was interrupted by a months-long jaundice, and it only reached fifth place.

After their athletes career, she was qualified sports teacher and worked in Halle ( Saale) as a trainer for a diver. She trained including the internationally successful jumpers Martina Jaeschke and Beate Jahn. Because of a spinal ailment she was temporarily Sportfunktionärin. Later she discovered again as a coach, the talent of the future Olympic medal winner in January Hempel in kindergarten and oversaw the successful diver Michael Kühne, Heiko Meyer and Annett Gamm.

After the end of the GDR, she lost her office manager and worked as a bank teller.

Other honors

Ingrid Krämer- Gulbin was after 1960, 1962, 1963 and 1964 East German Sportswoman of the Year. The sculptor Fritz Cremer created a bronze statue of her, which later found on the roof of Springer hall at Freiberger Platz in Dresden his place. In 1975, she was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the international swimming sport. 1960 and 1962 she received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and 1964 gold.

In 2011 she was inducted into the Hall of Fame of German sport