Margitta Gummel
Margitta Gummel, born Helmbold (born 29 June 1941 in Magdeburg ) is a former German track and field athlete and Olympic champion from 1968, which belonged in the 1960s and 1970s to the world's best shot putters inside.
Life
She started at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 and was with 16,91 m Fifth. The first European indoor games they won in 1966 in Dortmund with 17,30 m gold at the European Championships in the same year silver ( 17.05 m). The following year, she won the European Cup in Kiev in second place ( 17.66 m). In Havana they improved this year the GDR record 17.69 m.
In September 1968 the GDR record Gummel improved initially on 18.43 m and threw Shortly thereafter, 18.87 m world record. In October, she won the gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Mexico City. In her Olympic competition you get two more world records with 19.07 m and 19.61 m ( established on 20 October 1968) was the first woman that exceeded the 19 -meter mark. This Gummel had increased at the age of 27 years their personal best within a year by almost two meters. In the same year she was elected East German Sportswoman of the Year.
Your biggest rival was Nadezhda Tschischowa (USSR). Behind her, she was born in 1966, 1969 and 1971 each second at the European Championships. On September 11, 1969 Margitta Gummel succeeded in Berlin with a width of 20.11 m, a further world record, but the improved Nadjeschda Tschischowa five days later. And also at the 1972 Olympics in Munich won Gummel behind her silver.
Gummel launched in 1959 for the SC DHfK Leipzig and trained with Karl- Heinz Bauer Field. At a size of 1.77 m, they had a competition weight of 90 kg. In the becoming public knowledge after the fall of documents on doping in the GDR, also found doping doses of Gummel.
After the Olympic Games in 1972 she resigned from active competition. She was the mother of a daughter in 1976; In 1977, she received his doctorate. She initially worked in a sports research institute in Leipzig and later worked as Sportfunktionärin in DTSB Federal Executive and DVFL ( German Association of Athletics in the GDR ), and by the end of the GDR until 1993 at the National Sports Federation Brandenburg. They belonged to the NOC of the GDR and by 1993 the NOC to play for Germany. Then she moved to Bad Bentheim.