Kerstin Gerschau

Kerstin Gerschau ( born January 26, 1958 in Leipzig, according to Kerstin Marriage Kurrat ) is a former German gymnast devices. Your home club was the SC Leipzig.

Although Kerstin Gerschau until then had not won medals at GDR Championships, she competed at the turn European Championship 1973 in London. In multiplayer battle they won the bronze medal behind the two Soviet gymnasts Lyudmila Turischtschewa and Olga Korbut. Kerstin Gerschau reached all four apparatus finals and won silver at the bottom behind Turischtschewa. In 1974 she won at the East German championship on the balance beam. In the GDR Championship 1976 she won silver at the bottom and on the uneven bars and bronze in the horse jump and qualified in fourth in the all around for the Olympic team. In Montreal at the Olympic Games in 1976 she won ninth place in the eight- fight and the third place with the team. As a seventh- place finisher on the uneven bars they just missed the entry into the apparatus finals of the six best gymnasts.

Kerstin Gerschau married the sprinter Klaus -Dieter Kurrat, with whom she has three children. She studied choreography and theater at the Theatre Academy in Leipzig and completed his studies at the German College of Physical Culture as a qualified sports teacher from. After the turn, she ran a gym and worked as a sports teacher at Potsdamer sports center. Kerstin Kurrat runs her own show dance group.