Angelika Hellmann

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Angelika Hellmann on the balance beam at the GDR championship in 1974

Angelika Hellmann (born April 10, 1954 in Halle (Saale) , after marriage to Angelika Keilig ) is a former German gymnast who was part of the GDR national team from 1970 to 1976. Your home club was the SC Dynamo Berlin .

Career

Angelika Hellmann was the daughter of the later long-time NOK Vice President Rudolf Hellmann . At the Spartakiads in 1966 and 1968, she won on the floor and on the uneven bars. She had her international breakthrough at the 1970 World Cup in Ljubljana. Together with Karin Janz , Marianne Noack , Richarda Schmeißer , Christine Schmitt and Erika Zuchold , she won the silver medal in the team competition behind the Soviet squad. In the all-around competition she reached tenth place, on the balance beam she took fifth place and in the horse vault she placed sixth. In 1971 Angelika Hellmann and Erika Zuchold represented the GDR at the European Championships in Minsk. After finishing sixth in the all-around competition, she won the bronze medal on the uneven bars.

In 1972 Angelika Hellmann took part in the Olympic Games in Munich. The GDR team won silver behind the Soviet squad made up of Irene Abel , Angelika Hellmann, Karin Janz, Richarda Schmeißer, Christine Schmitt and Erika Zuchold. In the all-around competition Hellmann took sixth place, on the floor she reached fifth place and on the uneven bars she was sixth. In 1973 Angelika Hellmann won the all-round competition and on the uneven bars at the GDR championship. At the 1973 European Championships in London, Kerstin Gerschau and Angelika Hellmann competed for the GDR. Hellmann took fifth place in the all-around competition. On the uneven bars Hellmann won silver behind Lyudmila Turishcheva and in the horse jump Angelika Hellmann achieved the same number of points as Turishchewa, so that both received the European championship title.

In 1974 Angelika Hellmann won two more GDR championship titles when she was also successful in floor exercise in addition to the all-around competition. At the 1974 World Cup in Varna, the GDR squad with Irene Abel, Heike Gerisch , Angelika Hellmann, Bärbel Röhrich , Richarda Schmeißer and Annelore Zinke again won silver behind the Soviet team. In the all-around event, Hellmann won bronze behind Turishcheva and Olga Korbut . Hellmann proved her equilibrium by reaching all apparatus finals, she took fourth place on the uneven bars, fifth place in the horse jump, and sixth on the floor and on the balance beam. At the end of her career, Hellmann took part in the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. Together with Carola Dombeck , Gitta Escher , Kerstin Gerschau, Marion Kische and Steffi Kräker , she won bronze behind the Soviet team and the Romanians. As 13th in the all-around event, Hellmann was only able to qualify for one device finale, on the balance beam she took fifth place.

After completing her sports studies, Angelika Hellmann was a trainer at Dynamo Berlin. From 1990 to 1994 she was national coach.

Awards

literature

  • Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 .

Web links

Commons : Angelika Hellmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).
personal data
SURNAME Hellmann, Angelika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)