Birgit Großhennig

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Birgit Großhennig athletics
nation Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic
birthday February 21, 1965
Career

Birgit Großhennig (born February 21, 1965 in Blankenburg ) is a former German athlete .

She took part in the Junior European Championships in 1981 and 1983 and finished fourth in the high jump in 1981 with 1.84 m and 1983 with 1.85 m . Her personal best in the high jump is 1.88 m from 1981.

On June 9, 1984 Birgit Großhennig jumped 7.00 m in the long jump . With this width, she is still in seventh place on the all-time German best list today (as of June 2019) and is one of the 71 jumpers who have exceeded the 7-meter mark to date (as of November 29, 2016).

It started for Lok Blankenburg and SC Magdeburg . In the documents on state doping in the GDR that became public after the fall of the Wall , the name of Großhennig was found among the doped athletes.

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Report on successful athletes from Blankenburg (Harz)
  2. ↑ Eternal best lists open air: men / women ( Memento of October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), www.leichtathletik.de
  3. ↑ All time best long Jump - women - senior - outdoor ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , IAAF  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iaaf.org
  4. ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 181
personal data
SURNAME Großhennig, Birgit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Blankenburg (Harz)