Brigitte Holzapfel

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Brigitte Elisabeth Holzapfel (born April 10, 1958 in Krefeld , North Rhine-Westphalia ), married Brigitte Elisabeth Kurschilgen , is a former German high jumper who won the bronze medal for the Federal Republic at the 1978 European Championships (1.95 m; German record of the Federal Republic ).

It also started at the 1976 Olympic Games (eleventh place: 1.87 m) and the 1984 Olympic Games (eleventh place: 1.85 m).

At the German all-around championships in 1975 in Lübeck, Holzapfel had taken the inadmissible drug Novadral with the α-sympathomimetic norfenefrin, but was not punished for doping by the presidium of the German Athletics Association (DLV).

At the Junior European Championships in 1975 she was the winner in the pentathlon (4450 points: 14.68 s - 12.10 m - 1.86 m - 6.33 m - 24.66 s) and third in the high jump (1.80 m).

Brigitte Holzapfel is 1.83 m tall and weighed 64 kg during her active time. It started first for the sports club Preussen Krefeld , later for TuS 04 Leverkusen , LG Bayer Leverkusen and TV Wattenscheid .

After her active career, she became a trainer. In addition to her work at the LG Olympia Dortmund , she also took over the position of national high jump trainer at the DLV. Holzapfel is married to Thomas Kurschilgen , who has been the sports director of the DLV since 2009. You have two children.

Personal best

  • High jump: 1.95 m, August 12, 1978, Cologne

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Bernd Dassel: Strange things in the doping case , Zeit , August 18, 1978
  2. ↑ LG North Berlin ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lgnord.de
  3. ↑ Thomas Hahn: The new double competence , October 2, 2009
  4. ^ Silke Bernhart: Family ties - Die Kurschilgens , Leichtathletik.de, January 27, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Crab apple, Brigitte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holzapfel, Brigitte Elisabeth (full name); Kurschilgen, Brigitte (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high jumper
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld , North Rhine-Westphalia , Federal Republic of Germany