Lina Radke

Caroline " Lina " Radke, born Batschauer ( born October 18, 1903 in Karlsruhe, † 14 February 1983 ibid ) was a German track and field athlete, who won the 800 - meter sprint at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam.

For athletics came Karoline Batschauer in 1924 in Baden -Baden, where her family had moved in 1917. In the 1920s she was the leading German middle distance runner. In 1926 she won at the German Championships over 1000 meters. On August 7, 1927, she ran the 800 meters at the German Championships a world best time of 2:23,8 min - the first of six world best and world records in her career. After her marriage with George Radke, she moved to Breslau, and in 1928 also won this item.

Olympic Games 1928

In her Olympic victory on August 2, 1928, she wins in new world record time of 2:16,8 min (first officially registered world record). This gold medal was the first for the German athletes and the first for the German women since the beginning of the Olympic Games in 1896.

The program component of the 1928 Olympic Games in the 800 - meter race could be FSFI only after establishment of the International Women's Sports Federation. After that, the discipline was again withdrawn from the program, since women are supposedly overwhelmed physically. Henceforth, all runs were installed over 100 meters for women again. The 800 - meter race was not until 1960 again an Olympic sport.

World best / world records

  • 800 m: 2:23,8 min ( Wroclaw, August 7, 1927)
  • 2:19,6 min ( Brieg, July 1, 1928)
  • 2:16,8 min ( Amsterdam, August 2, 1928)
  • 3:06,5 min ( Brieg, August 24, 1930)

On the Women's World Games athletics in London in 1934 she reached the third place in the 800 meters ( unofficially, since first Fourth: She moved on the subsequent disqualification of the winner Koubkova ago). After these games were not played; therefore, there was no middle distance competitions for women at a high level longer. Lina Radke ended her active career to work as a trainer in Breslau. To their active time Lina Radke had a height of 1.69 m and weighed 55 kg.

Post-war period

In 1945, she came as displaced persons over Sömmerda ( Thuringia) to Torgau (Saxony -Anhalt). The gold medal was lost during the run. It was later found in an estate in Cologne and awarded her 1956 Olympic from the National Committee of the GDR a second time. 1961, just before the Wall was built, the couple moved Lina Radke's birth city of Karlsruhe.

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