Ingrid Schmidt

Ingrid Schmidt in Magdeburg (1963 )

Ingrid Schmidt ( born March 3, 1945 in Rudolstadt, after marriage Ingrid Naue ) is a former swimmer from East Germany. It was 1960 Olympic bronze medalist with the medley relay.

Career

She stood from 1959 to 1963 a total of 14 East German records on the back stretch on. 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1963 it was DDR Champion on the 100 meters backstroke distance, 1963, she also won the 200 meters backstroke distance. In Rome at the Olympic Games in 1960, she swam in the 4 × 100 meter medley relay that won bronze for the all-German team. Ingrid Schmidt, Ursula Küper and Bärbel Fuhrmann from the GDR swam this season together with the FRG - freestyle specialist Ursel Brunner 4:47,6 minutes, but missed so that the European record, the DDR Medley Relay minutes shortly before on 4:46,7 had asked. However, the season would have come with the European record time behind the seasons of the USA and Australia to the finish.

In 1962, she was with the medley relay the GDR European champion in a new world record time of 4:40,1 minutes. For this performance, the medley relay with Ingrid Schmidt, Barbara Göbel, Ute Noack and Heidi Pechstein was elected to the GDR to the Team of the Year. In the same year she received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. She started first for BSG unit Greiz and later for the SC DHfK Leipzig.

Private

Ingrid Schmidt later became a doctor and settled in 1984 in the Federal Republic.