Beate Gummelt
Beate Gummelt ( Helga Beate Gummelt, born Anders, born February 4, 1968 in Leipzig ) is a former German race walker. By 1990 they started for the GDR.
At the World Athletics Championships 1987 in Rome, they came in a 10- km walk on the 16th Place. In 1989 she won over 3000m Go Gold at the Indoor Athletics Championships in The Hague and silver at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Budapest. In 1990 she defended her title at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow and was at the European Championships in Split Sixth over 10 kilometers.
In 1991, she won over 3000 meters at the World Indoor Championships in Seville and was at the World Championships in Tokyo in ten over 10 kilometers. The following year saw a bronze medal over 3000 meters at the European Indoor Championships in Genoa.
With the Olympic debut of women walking in Barcelona in 1992, she took the 16th place over a distance of 10 kilometers., She finished fourth over 3000 meters at the World Indoor Championships in Toronto and Fifth about 10 km at the World Championships in Stuttgart in 1993.
In Paris in 1994 was walking the last time the program of the European Indoor Championships. Beate Gummelt what it was called now, winning their fourth silver medal in a row. In the summer she was 10-kilometer ninth at the European Championships in Helsinki. About the same distance she was disqualified at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg Tenth and at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
At the 1997 World Championships in Athens, she gave up in the final of the 10,000 meters walking. With their third at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000, when she reached the 19th place in the 20 - km walk, she completed her performance athletic career.
The eight she was German champion in the 5000 meters (1991-1997, 2000) and in the street walking (10 miles: 1991-1997; 20 km: 1999). Previously, she had become four times in a row DDR Champion (1987-1989: 10 km; 1990: 5000 m). In the hall, she was three times in a row DDR Champion (1988, 1989, 5000 m, 1990 3000 m) and brought in a united Germany eight titles over 3000 meters (1991-1997, 2000).
Beate Gummelt is 1.69 m and weighed in their active period 52 kg. In the communist era it belonged to the TSC Berlin ( Coach: Gerhard lifter ) that later the LAC Hallensee Berlin. In November 1993, she married her walker colleagues Bernd Gummelt. Today she works as a teacher in Neuruppin.
World Records
- 3000m Track Walk ( indoor world records ): 11:59,36 min, March 4, 1990 in Glasgow 11:56,0 min, February 17, 1991 in Dortmund 11:50,90 min, March 9, 1991 in Seville
- 5000 m Track Walk ( unofficial outdoor world record): 20:07,52 min, June 23, 1990 in Rostock