Brigitte Wujak
Brigitte Wujak (* 6. March 1955 in Karl-Marx-Stadt as Brigitte Künzel ) is a former GDR - athlete who in the 1980 Olympic Games silver medal in the long jump won.
Career
She was GDR champion in 1977 and won the European Cup . In Prague she was fourth at the 1978 European Championships . The following year she won again at the European Cup. In 1980 Wujak became GDR indoor champion and won silver at the Olympic Games in Moscow (6.88-6.68-6.81-6.87-6.81-7.04 m ). With its width of 7.04 m, it was the first German to surpass the 7-meter mark.
In 1981 she became the mother of a daughter. Then she started at the European Championships in Athens in 1982 , where she was only tenth due to injury (6.47 m). She ended her sports career in 1984 and had a second daughter in 1986.
She started for SC Dynamo Berlin and trained with Karl Thierfelder . During her competition time she was 1.70 m tall and weighed 58 kg. In the documents on state doping in the GDR that became public after the fall of the Wall , the name of Wujak was also found among the doped athletes.
The qualified teacher works for the Federal Border Police (now Federal Police) in Berlin. Her family name has been Pretzschner since 2002.
In 1980 Brigitte Wujak was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.
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.
Web links
- Brigitte Wujak in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 184
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 3
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wujak, Brigitte |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kuenzel, Brigitte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athlete and Olympic medalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karl Marx City |