Barbara Göbel

Barbara Göbel
Barbara Göbel (2nd from left) (1960)
Personal information
Surname:	Barbara Göbel
Nation:	German Democratic Republic
Swimming style (s) :	chest
Birthday:	April 8, 1943
Place of birth:	Jena
Size:	1.72 m
Medal table

Barbara Göbel (born April 8, 1943 in Jena ) is a former swimmer from the GDR . She was third in the Olympic Games in 1960.

Career

At the all-German Olympic elimination in Munich in 1960 , the high school student from Jena was able to defeat Wiltrud Urselmann and qualified for the Olympic team together with Wiltrud Urselmann. In Rome at the 1960 Olympic Games , she swam the 200-meter chest course in 2: 53.6 minutes and won bronze behind the British Anita Lonsbrough and Wiltrud Urselmann.

On July 1, 1961, she swam in Rostock on the 100 meter chest course in 1: 18.2 minutes, a world record. In 1962 she became European champion in the GDR's 4 × 100 meter relay in a new world record time of 4: 40.1 minutes. For this performance, the layer relay with Ingrid Schmidt , Göbel, Ute Noack and Heidi Pechstein was voted Team of the Year in the GDR . After an injury to the meniscus, Barbara Göbel could not qualify for the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo .

She started first for SC Motor Jena and later for SC Magdeburg . In 1962 she received the Silver Patriotic Order of Merit .

Barbara Göbel married the captain of the GDR water polo team Siegfried Ballerstedt in 1964 . She completed a distance learning course at the Leipzig DHfK and became a qualified sports teacher.

literature

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , September 13, 1962, p. 2