Birgit Heinecke

Birgit Heinecke medal table
Handball
German Democratic Republic
World Championship
gold	1978 ČSSR
Olympic Summer Games
bronze	1980 Moscow

Birgit Heinecke (born April 10, 1957 in Magdeburg , born Birgit Richter ) is a former German handball player .

She played for SC Magdeburg in the GDR league and became world champion with the GDR national team in 1978. Two years later, she won the bronze medal with the national team at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow . In total, she played 57 international matches for the GDR. In 1979 she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

After her career, she worked in training at SC Magdeburg. She later worked in the marketing department of the Magdeburg daily Volksstimme .

From 2004 to 2009 she was the marketing manager at the Ostsee-Zeitung in Rostock.

She has been working for the Leipziger Volkszeitung since 2009 .

Web links

• Birgit Heinecke in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

literature

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Birgit Heinecke in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ), accessed on May 6, 2009
2. ↑ Birthdays in April 2009. In: HM - Das Handballpremiummagazin. April 2009, p. 13.
3. ↑ Handball World Championships. www.sport-komplett.de, accessed on May 6, 2009 . 
4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , March 2, 1979, p. 4
5. ↑ Lühmann, Reimer hears the call of Bauer's 'Volksstimme'. In: Newbusiness.de. Retrieved April 1, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Imprint. In: Ostsee-Zeitung . Retrieved May 6, 2009 .