Brigitte Hoffmann

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Brigitte Hoffmann (born August 7, 1943 in Neuruppin ) is a German tennis player and sports scientist .

Career

Hoffmann began her career in SG Eintracht Neuruppin. She later brought Wolfgang Jacket, one of the top players in the GDR , to the HSG Humboldt University in Berlin before the Wall was built . It was there that Hoffmann began studying to be a teacher in history and sport. Her tennis skills remained hidden from the officials and coaches until 1967, when she stood out at Hella Riede's side in women's doubles by winning the GDR championships.

Now she was appointed to the B-squad of the gymnastics and sports club Berlin , but soon returned to her old HSG club, which in 1970 brought her short-term exclusion from the national squad. Hoffmann was not deterred by this and at the age of 28 he secured the GDR individual championships for the first time, which was followed by six more individual titles. Her professional career at the Humboldt University , where she did her doctorate in 1977 on the subject of “Strength training for rowers outside of the rowing boat”, was just as successful. The university business gave the Brandenburg native enough time to maintain a high level of play. It was not until 1979, when she won her last individual title, that she was retired from the national team at the age of 36. A year later she was awarded the title “Master of Sports”.

After the fall of the Wall, she demonstrated her class once again on the international senior stage. Together with Sigrun Fuhrmann, Hoffmann became world champion in doubles in 1993. In 1998 she became team world champion in age group 55 with the German team. Five years later she was able to repeat this success in the age group 60.

literature

  • R. Streppelhoff: Tennis as a competitive sport in the GDR. In: Stadium. International magazine for the history of sport. 23 (2007), 2, pp. 243-264

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deutscher Tennis Bund eV: "Tennis in Germany - From the Beginnings to the Present, Hundred Years of the German Tennis Federation" , p. 184.
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuruppin