Delia Reinhardt (diver)

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Delia Reinhardt Diving
Delia Reinhard, Vera Baklanova, Tamara Safonova 1966 (cropped2) .jpg

Delia Reinhardt (left) with the Russians Vera Baklanowa (center) and Tamara Safonowa (right) at the award ceremony of the 1966 European Championship

Personal information
Nationality: Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR DDR Germany
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Discipline (s) : Art and high diving
Society: Berlin TSC
Birthday: August 27, 1947
Place of birth: Berlin
Size: 166 cm
Weight: 55 kg
Medals

Delia Reinhardt (born August 27, 1947 in Berlin ) is a former German diver . In the 1960s she was several times GDR champion and runner-up in art and high diving and took part in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo as a member of the all-German team . In 1966 she became vice European champion in jumping.

Athletic career

Reinhardt started water sports at the age of eleven. She trained with Olga Jensch-Jordan at the swimming club TSC Berlin .

When in 1963 held in the GDR European Cup in the water jump on 27 and 28 July 1963 in Leipzig swimming stadium , which was attended by athletes from eleven nations, she won as a 15-year-old the bronze medal in springboard diving by Ingrid Krämer and the Russian Koskezowa.

A few months later, in October 1963 in Rostock - again after Ingrid Krämer - she became GDR runner-up in artificial diving from the 3-meter board and third in high diving.

At the beginning of August 1964 she became GDR vice-champion in diving in Rostock. In the same month, she qualified in the eliminations on 26/27. August in the Neptun swimming pool in Rostock for participation in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. She thus belonged to the all-German team, in which the best athletes from the then separate two German states were represented. She finished the Olympic diving competitions on October 15, 1964 as tenth among 24 participants from eleven countries.

In July 1965 she won both national championship titles and was GDR champion in Leipzig in both artificial jumping from the 3-meter board and in diving. At the European Swimming Championships in Utrecht in 1966 , after the Russian Wera Baklanowa , she won the silver medal in artificial jumping from the 3-meter board with only a narrow point deficit .

In 1966 she was again GDR runner-up in jumping from the 3-meter board in Leipzig. In the same discipline, she also won 2nd place at the GDR indoor diving championships in Rostock in 1967 and 1968.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Athletes' gallery . In: Neue Berliner Illustrierte . General German publishing house, 1965, p. 73 ( online ).
  2. ↑ GDR jumpers nominated . In: New Germany . July 21, 1963, p. 8 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Athletes' gallery . In: Neue Berliner Illustrierte . General German publishing house, 1965, p. 73 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Delia Reinhardt in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
  5. ^ European Swimming Championships (Women). In: gbrbrathletics.com. Retrieved April 4, 2020 .
  6. ^ GDR championships in diving. In: sport-record.info. Retrieved April 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Reinhardt, Delia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diver
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin