Birgit Suess

Birgit Süß (born March 29, 1962 in Halle (Saale) , after marriage to Birgit Saul ) is a former German gymnast . Your home club was the SC Chemie Halle .

Birgit Süß was part of the GDR squad at the 1978 World Championships in Strasbourg together with Steffi Kräker , Silvia Hindorff , Karola Sube , Heike Kunhardt and Birte Wittwer , which won bronze behind the Soviet team and the Romanians. In the individual ranking she came in 15th place. She also reached two device finals and took 7th place on the floor and 8th on the uneven bars. After she did not belong to the GDR squad at the 1979 World Championships, she returned to the team at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. Together with Maxi Gnauck , Katharina Rensch, Steffi Kräker, Silvia Hindorff and Karola Sube, she won the bronze medal behind the ranks from the Soviet Union and Romania. In the individual ranking of the all-around event, she was 17th. As sixth in the qualification, she would have reached the device finals in the horse jump. However, only two gymnasts from each group were allowed to make it into the apparatus finals and both Steffi Kräker and Maxi Gnauck were ahead of Birgit Süß. The world championships in 1981 found such as the Olympics the year before in Moscow. Maxi Gnauck, Steffi Kräker, Annett Lindner , Birgit Süß, Franka Voigt and Birgit Senff won bronze behind the Soviet Union and the Chinese squad.

After completing her medical degree, she completed a specialist training in laboratory diagnostics. Today she works as a laboratory manager in a clinic group.

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 .

Web links

• Birgit Süß in the Olympedia.org database (English)
• Gymnastics World Championships