Margit Schumann

Margit Schumann ( born September 14, 1952 in Walter Hausen ) is a former German luger.

Margit Schumann began in 1966 on the spit mountain railway in Friedrichroda with the luge. After five years of training, she managed to jump into the 1971 Junior National Team of the GDR, in which they unexpectedly took the title of European Champion. At the Olympics in 1972 in Sapporo, she won in the women's single luge bronze medal behind team mates Anna -Maria Müller and Ute Rührold. In the winter of 1972/73 she succeeded by winning the East German championship title as well as the European and World Championship title for the first time a triple success they repeated in 1974 and 1975. At the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1976 Margit Schumann won the gold medal. 1977 Margit Schumann took her fourth world title. With a sixth place finish at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, she ended her career and devoted himself thereafter to their sport studies at the Leipzig DHfK to enter as a toboggan specialist in the coaching profession. She started in Oberhof as a junior trainer before she took over the GDR selection. Last Margit Schumann worked in the rank of Major. The Bundeswehr took over as personnel clerk at the sports promotion group Oberhof. Later they used the Bundeswehr Kreiswehrersatzamt Zella- Mehlis in the psychological service.

Schumann in 1976 was awarded the Fatherland in 1980 in silver and gold. From 2005 until his death in 2014 she was the longtime chief press officer of the FIL, Harro Esmarch, married.

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