Siegrun Siegl

Sigrun Siegl, née Thon ( born October 29, 1954 in Apolda ) is a former German athlete who had - starting for the GDR - 1976 Olympic gold medalist in the pentathlon was.

At the European Championships in 1974, she finished fourth in the pentathlon ( 4584 points). In May 1976, she set a world record in the long jump with 6.99 meters. At the Olympic Games in Montreal she then took the long jump in fourth place in the pentathlon, however, she won her gold medal. You scoring with 4745 points the same end result as her teammate Christine laser, but won applicable IAAF rules with the number of better individual placements. Your individual performances in this competition: 13.31 s - 12.92 m - 1.74 m - 6.49 m - 23.09 s

After an injury break Siegl moved completely from the pentathlon long jump. It was 1979 European Indoor champion (6.70 m) and at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow in five.

It was 1975 DDR Champion in the pentathlon, 1979 with the 4 x 100 - meter relay and the long jump in 1980.

Sigrun Siegl started for the SC Turbine Erfurt and coached at Siegfried Meissner. In her competition time, she was 1.73 m tall and weighed 58 kg. In the becoming public knowledge after the fall of documents to the state doping in the GDR was found in the doped athletes also the name of Siegl. In 1976, she was honored for her Olympic victory in Montreal with the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.

After her athletic career she studied sports science in Leipzig and was a physical education teacher at a vocational school in Erfurt. After the end of the GDR, they opened a photography business in Erfurt.