Anne-Chatrine Rühlow

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Anne-Chatrine Rühlow (née Lafrenz ; born September 30, 1936 in Altgalendorf ) is a German athlete who began her career in the 1950s and is still successful in the senior sector in the new millennium. In the 65 years of her athletics career, she has won 525 championship titles, including 85 German championships, 20 European and seven world championships, as well as various world records.

Life

Anne-Chatrine Lafrenz began her athletics career as a thrower at Gut-Heil Lübeck in the early 1950s. In 1954 she was German youth champion in the shot put , discus throw and pentathlon . In 1955 she entered the adult class and won the German Championships in Frankfurt in discus throwing and in the shot put, where she improved her own junior world record in the shot put with 14.23 m. At the German Championships in 1956 , she defended her title in discus throwing, but only finished sixth in the shot put. Nonetheless, she competed in both disciplines at the 1956 Olympic Games in Australia. While she did not reach the final fight as fifteenth of the qualification in the discus throw, she finished twelfth in the shot put final. Before that, she had set an all-German record in the discus throw in September with 49.33 m. In 1957, with a height of 1.65 m, the athlete, unusually small for a thrower, won her third championship title .

Before the 1958 season she moved to the Münsterland for SC Greven 09 , where Marianne Werner, who was ten years her senior , was also active. At the German Indoor Championships in 1958 Werner won the title in the shot put, Lafrenz took third place. In the 1958 open-air season, Lafrenz came third in the discus throw. She married a secondary school director and started as Anne-Chatrine Rühlow in the 1960s. Outdoors, after 1958, she only placed third in the discus throw and fourth in the shot put at the German Championships in 1961, and indoors she reached the finals several times in the early 1960s.

In 1967 Rühlow, now wearing the Prussia Münster jersey, returned to the top of Germany with a fifth place in the shot put. Especially in the discus throw she took top places, she was third from 1969 to 1972 and came second in 1974 and 1975 behind Liesel Westermann . She set her personal best of 15.33 m with the ball and 56.14 m with the discus in 1971. In 1977 Rühlow reached the final battle at the German championships for the last time at the age of forty.

After that, Rühlow remained active as a senior athlete, including being the European Senior Champion in 1982 and 1986. According to the Münsterschen Zeitung, Rühlow , who is now playing for SV Burgsteinfurt , won her 65th German championship title in the 2011 indoor season. In 1989 she entered the World Athletics Championships in Eugene and 1995 in Buffalo . In 2017 she won two more titles at the European Championships in Aarhus and set new world records in the senior class with 9.66 m with the ball and 25.53 m with the discus.

Rühlow lives in Burgsteinfurt .

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005. 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 (published by Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft )
  • Fritz Steinmetz and Manfred Grieser : German records. Development from 1898 to 1991. Kassel 1992

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Westfälische Nachrichten : Your world is flat: Anne Chatrine Rühlow hurls the disc and pushes the ball far , even at the age of 81 , Sport regional, Heiner Gerull, February 2, 2018
  2. ^ Münstersche Zeitung of February 15, 2011 (accessed July 4, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Rühlow, Anne-Chatrine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lafrenz, Anne-Chatrine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Altgalendorf