Antje Gleichfeld
Antje Gleichfeld 
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| Full name | Antje Gleichfeld | |||||||||||||||
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| birthday | March 31, 1938 | |||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Hamburg-Wellingsbüttel | |||||||||||||||
| size | 178 cm | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 69 kg | |||||||||||||||
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| discipline | 400 m run , 800 m run | |||||||||||||||
| Best performance | 800 m - 2: 03.7 (1966) | |||||||||||||||
| society | TuS Alstertal , Hamburg | |||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | |||||||||||||||
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Antje Gleichfeld , née Antje Braasch (born March 31, 1938 in Hamburg-Wellingsbüttel ), is a former German athlete and Olympic participant who was a successful 400 and 800 meter runner in the 1960s.
Career
Antje Gleichfeld grew up with her two brothers as a half orphan in the Hamburg district of Wellingsbüttel after the Second World War. She lost her father during the war. As a six-year-old she began to play sports at VfL Wellingsbüttel . When she was twelve, she moved to TSV Sasel , where she played field handball as a center runner . Four years later, the tall (1.78 m, 69 kg) athlete switched to athletics and joined TuS Alstertal (merged with SC Langenhorn to form SC Alstertal-Langenhorn since 2002 ), for which she started until the end of her career. Successes as a B-youth were followed by the Hamburg Championship in 1957 over 200 meters and the North German Championship over 800 meters. After a successful start at German forest running championships over the middle distance, she won the first of her numerous German championship titles in 1961, still under her birth name Braasch. In the resumption of the women's 800-meter run in the program of the Olympic Games at the Rome Games in 1960 , she finished fifth in 2: 06.5 minutes, directly behind the other two German participants Ursula Donath and Vera Kummerfeldt . At the Olympics in 1964 she was again fifth, this time with 2: 03.9 min at the Olympic victory of the world record-running Brit Ann Packer .
Gleichfeld came third twice at European championships, in 1966 over their traditional 800-meter route and in 1969 in Athens , when the Federal Republic only sent athletes to the relay races, with the 4-by-400-meter relay in the German record time of 3:32 , 7 min. In the run-up to September 19, 1969, she and her teammates Christa Czekay , Inge Eckhoff and Christel Frese ran a new world record in 3: 33.9 minutes, which only lasted one day.
She improved the German record over 800 meters three times, twice during the Olympic Games in Tokyo with 2: 04.6 minutes and 2: 03.9 minutes on October 19 and 20, 1964 and in 2: 03.7 minutes on October 3. September 1966 in Budapest in the finals of the European Championships, this remained her personal best over this distance.
successes
Olympic games
- 1960 Olympic Games in Rome : 5th over 800 m in 2: 06.5 min
- 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo : 5th in 2: 03.9 min
European championships
- European Championships 1966 in Budapest : Bronze 800 m in 2: 03.7 min behind Vera Nikolić in 2: 02.8 min and Szabóné Nagy in 2: 03.1 min
- European Championships 1969 Athens : Bronze 4 × 400 m in 3: 32.7 min (Team: Czekay, Gleichfeld, Eckhoff, Frese)
German championships
- 800 m
- 1960: Second in 2: 08.5 min
- 1961: Champion in 2: 12.6 min
- 1963: Master in 2: 07.1 min
- 1964: Master in 2: 07.4 min
- 1965: Master in 2: 11.4 min
- 1966: Champion in 2: 05.6 min
- 1967: Third in 2: 06.9 min
- 800 m hall
- 1958: Second behind Nanny Schlüter and in front of Margret Buscher
- 1962: Master
- 1965: Master
- 1966: Second behind Karin Kessler and in front of Anni Pede
- 400 m
- 1958: Master in 57.1 s
- 1965: Master in 56.1 s
- 1966: Second behind Helga Henning and ahead of Mechtild Achtel
- 1967: Third behind Gisela Köpke and Helga Henning
- 1969: Third behind Christel Frese and Christa Czekay
- 3 × 800 m relay
- 1967: Master ( Karin Kessler , Irmtraut Heer , Gleichfeld)
- 1968: Master (Heer, Gleichfeld, Kessler)
- Cross short distance
- 1962: Champion singles
- 1964: Master
- 1965: Master
- 1966: Master
- 1967: Second in the individual ranking, champion with the team of LG Alstertal-Garsted (Kessler, Gleichfeld, Army)
- Pentathlon team
- 1965: Champion with the team of LG Alstertal-Garsted ( Renate Balck , Karin Kessler , Antje Gleichfeld)
- 1968: Third with the team of LG Alstertal-Garsted (Christel Voss, Antje Gleichfeld, Schumann)
For her numerous sporting successes she received the Silver Laurel Leaf on December 11, 1964.
Web links
- Antje Gleichfeld in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Antje Gleichfeld in the Munzinger archive , accessed on January 30, 2011 ( beginning of the article freely available)
- ↑ Sports report of the federal government of September 29, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 - page 66
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gleichfeld, Antje |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Braasch, Antje (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athlete and Olympic participant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg-Wellingsbüttel , German Empire |