Annegret Richter
Annegret Richter (born Irrgang, born October 13, 1950 in Dortmund ) is a retired German sprinter and Olympic champion who competed for the Federal Republic.
Sports career
Under her birth name Irrgang they finished sixth over 60 meters at the Indoor Athletics Championships 1970 in Vienna. In 1971 she won bronze at the European Indoor Championships in Sofia on 60 meters and gold at the European Championships 1971 in Helsinki in the 4 x 100 - meter relay.
In 1972 she took at the European Indoor Championships in Grenoble silver over 50 meters. At the Olympic Games in Munich, she was fifth in the 100 meters and won the 4 x 100 - meter relay.
At the European Indoor Championships 1973 in Rotterdam followed double gold over 60 meters and in the 4 x 180 - meter relay. In 1974 she was over 60 meters at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg seventh. At the European Championships in Rome, she was fifth in the 100 meters and won silver in the 4 x 100 - meter relay.
Your greatest successes they had in the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. There, she won gold in the 100 meters, where she defeated her great rival Renate Stecher, and two silver medals ( in the 200 - meter dash, just behind Bärbel Wöckel from the GDR, and in the 4 x 100 - meter relay ). A few weeks before the Olympics their season colleague Inge Helten had set a world record with 11.04 s in the 100 meters, the judge in the Olympic semi-final 11.01 s improved.
After Marlies Goehr had run out of the GDR in 1977 with 10.88 s world record, finished first judge their career. The goal is to run as the first woman under 11 seconds, was no longer accessible. In 1979, she launched a comeback, taking s ceased old personal best with 11.01.
At the German Championships 1979 ( defeating both 100 and 200 meters each runner Cornelia vanquishing ) and 1980 ( they beat in dramatic enemas gossamer each runner Christina Sussiek ) won it again the title in the 100 and 200 meters.
At the Olympic Games in 1980 could not start because of the participation of the Federal Republic of Germany in the boycott of the Games. She retired permanently at the end of the 1980 season from active competition sport back.
Annegret Richter is 1,67 m tall and weighed in their active period 52 kg. She started for the OSC Dortmund.
Personal Best
- 50 m (Hall ): 6.28 s, March 12, 1972, Grenoble
- 60 m (Hall ): 7.24 s, February 19, 1977, Dortmund
- 100 m: 11.01 s, July 25, 1976 Montreal
- 200 m: 22.39 s, July 28, 1976 Montreal Hall: 23.22 s, February 26, 1977 Sindelfingen
Occupation and Private
Richter is the former hurdler Manfred Richter ( born September 19, 1949) married, with whom she has two children.
She was until 1985 part-time administrative employees of the city of Dortmund. She then moved to the sports goods company Adidas, as she stated in a newspaper interview for the Financial Times Germany in 2008.