Marga Petersen

Marga Petersen, born Kalensee, ( born September 18, 1919 in Bremen, † 22 September 2002 in Otter Mountain ) was a German track and field athlete and Olympic medal winner.

Supposedly they came up with 15 years for Running, when she stepped in for another girl who was ill, and all of that occurred sprinters ran in dress and outdoor footwear. In 1936, the then 17 -year-old Kalensee Gau- champion in 4 x 100 - meter relay. Your future husband Ewald Petersen, active in the Police Sports Club, Lower Saxony runner-up was over 100 meters with a time of 10.9 s in 1946 at the Zone Championships in Frankfurt am Main, she was German champion in the 100 - meter dash and the 4 - x 100 - meter relay. 1947 in Cologne, she was able to repeat their results. 1947 was also the year in which she was voted athlete of the year. Also in 1948 and 1949, they could defend their title and brought in 1949 with the season of Werder Bremen in a new German record time even the title in the 4 x 100 - meter relay. In 1951 she won again in Stuttgart the German championship title in the 100 meters and the 4 x 100 - meter relay and was honored in the same year with the Silver Laurel Leaf. In the German Indoor Championships in Berlin in 1951, she ran a European record in the 50 - meter dash and improved it on the same day.

In the XV. 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, she won the team silver medal along with her colleagues Maria Sander, Ursula Knab and Helga Klein, behind the team from the USA ( Gold ) and before the team from Great Britain (bronze).

In appreciation of their merits she received then the second time the Silver Laurel Leaf, which is usually given only once.

Marga Petersen had a competition weight of 52 kg at a height of 1.65 m.