Hildrun Claus

Hildrun Laufer (nee Claus; born May 13, 1939 in Dresden ) is a former German track and field athlete who won the bronze medal in the long jump at the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 ( 6.21 m - 6.18 - invalid - invalid - 6, 13 to 6.11 ). She started in the joint German team for the GDR.

It was as athletics talent discovered in Dresden from the Olympia 1936 Second in the javelin, Luise Krüger. At 18, she succeeded in 1957, the first East German championship (5.99 m). 1960, at the excretions for the total German Olympic team, she jumped her first world record ( 6.42 m ), another in 1961.

The European Athletics Championships 1962, she was sixth (6.25 m). At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, she took the long jump ( seventh, 6.24 m) and in the pentathlon ( abandoned after the first day ) part.

Hildrun Laufer belonged to the SC Einheit Dresden and coached at Heinz birch Meyer ( 1922-1991 ). In her competition time, she was 1.72 m tall and weighed 64 kg.

She is married since 1962 with the pole vaulter Peter Laufer, who participated in the Olympics in the pole vault in 1960. In 1995 she suffered in a sports accident a nerve crush, which forces them since then in a wheelchair. She lives in Gielsdorf in Strausberg ( Brandenburg) and worked from vocational school teacher for garden and landscape gardeners.