Erika Rost

Erika Rost , until 1964 Erika Pollmann , (born February 15, 1944 in Werries , today Hamm ), is a former German athlete .

Career

Under her maiden name Pollmann, she won the 200-meter run at the German championships in 1964 and came second in the 100-meter run . She was then nominated for the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. There she was eliminated on both sprint courses in the preliminary run. With the 4-by-100-meter relay made up of Karin Frisch , Erika Pollmann, Martha Pensberger and Jutta Heine , she reached the Olympic final, where the relay came in fifth in 44.7 seconds.

After her marriage, Erika Rost won the German championship title on both sprint courses in 1965. At the premiere of the European Athletics Cup in 1965, she finished second over 100 meters. In 1966 she won the four-time-one-round relay at the first European indoor games in Dortmund together with Renate Meyer , Hannelore Trabert and Kirsten Roggenkamp . In 1967, Rost won the German Indoor Championships on the sprint track, and at the European Indoor Games in 1967 , the German relay team was disqualified due to a substitution error. In 1968, Rost finished second behind Hannelore Trabert at the German Championships. At the European Indoor Games in Madrid in 1968 , Rost also took second place in the sprint, although she was just ahead of Trabert, but both were beaten by the French Sylviane Telliez . The German four-time-one-round relay with Renate Meyer, Trabert, Christa Elsler and Rost won, the only competing Soviet relay was disqualified. At the German open-air championships in 1968 Erika Rost finished fourth over 100 meters, but she was not considered for the sprint relay at the 1968 Olympic Games.

Erika Rost started for FC Schalke 04 , she trained as a machine accountant.

Best times

• 100 meters: 11.5 s; Kleve May 18, 1964
• 200 meters: 23.9 s; Jena August 30, 1964

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published via Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft p. 992

Web links

• Erika Rost in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )