Claudia Hempel

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Claudia Hempel (born September 25, 1958 in Merseburg , after marrying Claudia Thamke ) is a former swimming athlete from the GDR who became world champion with the freestyle relay in 1975 .

Hempel won the Spartakiade in two competitions in 1972 , and in 1973 she finished fourth in the 100 meter butterfly at the European Junior Championships. The swimmer from TSC Berlin won the GDR championship in 1975 on both back legs ahead of Ulrike Richter and Ulrike Tauber . At the swimming world championships in 1975 , Ulrike Richter swam in the tier relay. Claudia Hempel fought her way to the world championship with the 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay consisting of Kornelia Ender , Hempel, Barbara Krause and Ute Brückner . In 1976, Hempel concentrated entirely on the freestyle course, taking second place behind Kornelia Ender in the GDR championship over 100 meters. At the 1976 Olympics , she finished sixth over 100 meters freestyle and seventh over 200 meters. With the 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay consisting of Kornelia Ender, Petra Priemer , Andrea Pollack and Claudia Hempel, she won the silver medal behind the US relay. For this success she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

Claudia Hempel studied sports at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and works as a sports and German teacher at the Cottbus sports school.

She is married to the team doctor of FC Energie Cottbus and has one child.

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 , p. 150.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).

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