Brigitte Wujak

Brigitte Wujak, born Kuenzel, ( born March 6, 1955 in Karl- Marx-Stadt ) is a former German athlete who had - starting for the GDR - at the 1980 Olympic Games, won the silver medal in the long jump.

It was 1977 GDR champion and won the European Cup. In Prague it was 1978 fourth at the European Championships. The following year she again won the European Cup. 1980 Wujak DDR Champion was in the hall and won at the Olympic Games in Moscow Silver ( 6,88-6,68-6,81-6,87-6,81-7,04 m). With its width of 7.04 m, it was the first German who surpassed the 7 -meter mark.

In 1981, she became the mother of a daughter. After that they started at the European Championships 1982 in Athens, where she injured only tithes ( 6.47 m). She finished in 1984 their athletes career and in 1986 became the mother of a second daughter.

She started for the SC Dynamo Berlin and trained with Karl Thierfelder. In her competition time, she was 1.70 m tall and weighed 58 kg. In the becoming public knowledge after the fall of documents to the state doping in the GDR was found in the doped athletes also the name of Wujak.

The certified teacher works at the Federal (now Federal Police ) in Berlin. Since 2002 she is called by family name Pretzschner.

1980 Brigitte Wujak was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.