Antje Gleichfeld
Antje dc field, born Braasch, ( born March 31, 1938 in Hamburg- Wellingsbüttel ) is a former German track and field athlete and Olympic athlete who was successful as a runner over 400 and 800 meters in the 1960s.
Career
Antje dc field grew after the Second World War with her two brothers as an orphan in the Hamburg district Wellingsbüttel to her father she lost during the war. As a six- year-old she began at VfL Wellingsbüttel sports. At twelve she moved to TSV Sasel, where she played as a middle runner field handball. Four years later joined the tall (1.78 m, 69 kg) athlete to athletics and joined the TuS Alster ( since 2002 with the SC Long Horn merged to SC Alstertal Long Horn ) to, for she started up her career end. Success as B- adolescents followed in the women's Hamburg Championship 1957 on 200 meters and the North German Championship in the 800 meters. After successful launches in German Waldlauf Championships over the medium-range, she won the first of many 1961 German Champion title under her birth name Braasch. At the resumption of the 800 -meter run of the women in the program of the Olympic Games in the Games of Rome 1960, she finished second in 2:06,5 min fifth place, just behind the two other German participants Ursula Donath and Vera Kummerfeldt. At the Olympics in 1964 it was again fifth, this time with 2:03,9 at the Olympic victory of world record min running British woman Ann Packer.
Dc field was twice third at European Championships, 1966 on their traditional 800 - meter track and 1969 in Athens, when the Federal Republic sent only athletes to the relay races, with the 4 x 400 - meter relay in German record time of 3:32, 7 min. In the run on September 19, 1969, she had gone along with their teammates Christa Czekay, Inge Eckhoff and Christel Frese in 3:33,9 min a new world record, but had only one day inventory.
Three times improved the German record in the 800 meters, twice during the Tokyo Olympics with 2:04,6 min and 2:03,9 minutes on 19 and 20 October 1964 and in 2:03,7 min on 3 September 1966 in Budapest in the finals of the European Championships, it was her personal best over this distance.
Achievements
Olympic games
- Summer Olympic Games in Rome in 1960: 5 800 m in 2:06,5 min
- Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 1964: 5th in 2:03,9 min
European Championships
- European Athletics Championships in Budapest in 1966: Bronze 800 m in 2:03,7 min behind Vera Nikolić in 2:02,8 min and Szabóné Nagy in 2:03,1 min
- European Athletics Championships 1969 Athens: Bronze 4 × 400 m in 3:32,7 min ( Team: Czekay, dc field, Eckhoff, Frese )