Annegret Richter

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Annegret Richter athletics
nation Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany
birthday October 13, 1950
place of birth Dortmund
size 167 cm
Weight 53 kg
Career
discipline sprint
Best performance 11.0 s (100 m cinder track )
11.01 s ( 100 m )
22.39 s ( 200 m )
society OSC Dortmund
status resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
European championships 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
European Indoor Championships 2 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
gold Munich 1972 4 × 100 m
gold Montreal 1976 100 m
silver Montreal 1976 200 m
silver Montreal 1976 4 × 100 m
EAA logo European championships
gold Helsinki 1971 4 × 100 m
silver Rome 1974 4 × 100 m
EAA logo European Indoor Championships
bronze Sofia 1971 60 m
silver Grenoble 1972 60 m
gold Rotterdam 1973 60 m
gold Rotterdam 1973 4 × 180 m
last change: September 4, 2019

Annegret Richter (née Irrgang; born October 13, 1950 in Dortmund ) is a former German athlete who was one of the world's best 100-meter runners in the 1970s , became Olympic champion in 1972 and 1976 , won two Olympic silver medals and set a world record in 1976 ran over 100 meters .

life and career

Annegret Richter began her career as a teenager at BV Teutonia Lanstrop, for which she became Westphalian B youth champion in Ahlen in 1965 .

Still with her maiden name Irrgang, she finished sixth over 60 meters at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in 1970 in Vienna . In 1971 she won bronze at the European Indoor Championships in Sofia over 60 meters and gold at the 1971 European Championships in Helsinki in the 4-by-100-meter relay .

In 1972 she won silver over 50 meters at the European Indoor Championships in Grenoble . At the Olympic Games in Munich , she was fifth over 100 meters and won the 4 x 100 meter relay.

At the European Indoor Championships in Rotterdam in 1973 , double gold over 60 meters and in the 4 x 180 meter relay followed. In 1974 she was seventh over 60 meters at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg . At the European Championships in Rome , she was fifth over 100 meters and won silver in the 4 x 100 meter relay.

She had her greatest successes at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. There she won gold over 100 meters, defeating her great rival Renate Stecher , and twice silver (in the 200-meter run , just behind Bärbel Wöckel from the GDR, and in the 4-by-100-meter relay). A few weeks before the Olympics, her relay colleague Inge Helten set a world record over 100 meters with 11.04 seconds, which Richter improved to 11.01 seconds in the Olympic semifinals.

A few weeks later she competed with other Olympic champions from Montreal at the third (and last) International Evening Sports Festival of the LG Ahlen and won the 100 m in the stadium of her B youth championship in 1965 in the world best time for cinder tracks of 11.0 seconds, which has since been unsurpassed .

After Marlies Göhr from the GDR ran the world record in 1977 with 10.88 seconds, Richter ended her career. The goal of being the first woman to run under 11 seconds was no longer achievable. In 1979 she started a comeback, setting her old best time of 11.01 s.

At the German Championships in 1979 and 1980, she again won the 100 and 200 meter titles; in 1976 she defeated Cornelia Schniggendiller, who came second, and Christina Sussiek in 1980 .

At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow she could not start due to the Western boycott of the Games and then finally withdrew from active competitive sport at the end of the 1980 season.

Annegret Richter is 1.67 m tall and weighed 52 kg during her active time. She started as an adult for the OSC Dortmund until the end .

She is married to the former hurdler Manfred Richter (born September 19, 1949), with whom she has two children. Until 1985 she worked part-time as an administrative clerk for the city of Dortmund. Then she switched to the sporting goods company Adidas .

Awards

Top performances

discipline Best performance date and location
50 m (hall) 6.28 s March 12, 1972, Grenoble
60 m (hall) 7.24 s February 19, 1977, Dortmund
100 meters ( cinder track ) 11.0 s September 3, 1976, Ahlen (world record, hand-stopped)
100 meters 11.01 s July 25, 1976, Montreal (discontinued 1979)
200 metres 22.39 s July 28, 1976, Montreal
200 meters (hall) 23.22 s February 26, 1977, Sindelfingen

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b André Fischer: When Annegret Richter ran the 100 meters in 11.0 seconds. Westfälische Nachrichten , September 3, 2016, accessed on September 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ "Hello, Ms. Richter, what are you actually doing?" Kicker from June 17, 1999, p. 39.
  3. ↑ Andreas Schlebach: Annegret Richter: "Only one can win." . In: NDR . June 6, 2008.
  4. ↑ Peter Middel: Annegret Richter a lively sixties. In: Leichtathletik.de , October 13, 2010.
  5. ↑ Bertram Job: My life with gold: What happened afterwards, Ms. Richter? ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Financial Times Deutschland . August 18, 2008.
  6. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. (PDF) State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Annegret
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mistake, Annegret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and Olympic champion
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund