Eva-Maria ten Elsen
Eva-Maria ten Elsen 
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Eva-Maria ten Elsen (right) and Liane Glöss at the GDR swimming competition in Wendorf (1956) |
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| Surname: | Eva-Maria ten Elsen | |||||||||
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 German Democratic Republic
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| Swimming style (s) : | Chest, layers | |||||||||
| Birthday: | September 14, 1937 | |||||||||
| Place of birth: | Altenburg | |||||||||
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Eva-Maria ten Elsen , widowed Hartmann (born September 14, 1937 in Altenburg ), is a former German swimmer who won the first medal for a swimmer in the GDR at the Olympic Games in 1956 .
Career
Swimming career
She started at the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 within the all-German team and won the bronze medal in the 200 meter breaststroke (2: 55.1 min). The Olympic champion of this competition was the West German swimmer Ursula Happe (2: 53.1 min).
Eva-Maria ten Elsen was 15 years old when she was a GDR champion in the 200-meter swimming pool in 1952 and 1953. In 1954 she became GDR champion on the 400-meter medley course, after which she switched to the 200-meter breaststroke discipline. In September 1956, shortly before the Olympic Games, she swam an annual world record (2: 53.3 min). She started for the SC Rotation Leipzig .
In 1960 she failed in the internal German elimination for the Olympic Games in Rome , and she ended her sports career in 1961.
Further career
In 1966 she graduated from the German University of Physical Culture (DHfK) with a diploma, after which she worked as a trainer in a swimming training center. From 1971 to 1990 she worked for the GDR sporting goods fair Expovita . After the end of the GDR , she worked for a real estate company and a health insurance company .
literature
- Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. 2nd updated edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-538-4 .
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- 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. 82.
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| SURNAME | Elsen, Eva-Maria ten |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eva-Maria Hartmann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German swimming athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altenburg |