Rita Kühne
Rita Kühne ( born January 5, 1947 in Dresden) is a former German track and field athlete and Olympic champion.
1971 and 1972 was the at SC Dynamo Berlin coaching Rita Kühne with the East German national team, in the 4 x 400 - meter race for Team of the Year selected in the GDR.
From 1969 to 1973 and 1975 she won the club team the 4 x 400 - meter relay at the East German athletics championships. In individual competition in the 400m she won in 1968 and 1973 and silver in 1971 and bronze in 1975. The Indoor Championships in the 400m she won from 1966 to 1969 four times in a row and again in 1971. During the same year, she was at the European Championships in 1971 in the 400 -meter run in eight in 53.9 s, and the relay in the cast Rita Kühne, Ingelore Lohse, Helga Seidler and Monika Zehrt she won in a world record time of 3:29,3 min the European title.
At the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972, she won the gold medal in the 4 x 400 meters relay, together with teammates Dagmar Kaesling, Helga Seidler and Monika Zehrt. After the quartet had already set up in advance with 3:28,48 min a new world record, it improved that mark in the finals again 3:22,95 min.
Rita Kühne had a competition weight of 65 kg at a height of 1.76 m. Your personal best of 51.01 s over 400 meters she set in 1976.