Franka Dietzsch

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Franka Dietzsch athletics

Franka Dietzsch Marktplatz-Center.jpg
Dietzsch in Neubrandenburg, 2005

nation Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic of Germany
GermanyGermany 
birthday January 22, 1968
place of birth Wolgast
size 183 cm
Weight 92 kg
Career
discipline Discus throw
Best performance 69.51 m
society SC Empor Rostock
SC Neubrandenburg
status resigned
Medal table
World championships 3 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
European championships 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
IAAF logo World championships
gold Seville 1999 68.14 m
gold Helsinki 2005 66.56 m
gold Osaka 2007 66.61 m
European championships
gold Budapest 1998 67.49 m
silver Gothenburg 2006 64.35 m

Franka Dietzsch (born January 22, 1968 in Wolgast ) is a former German discus thrower who has been world champion three times. She ended her career in 2009.

Life

Franka Dietzsch grew up in Koserow on Usedom , where she trained with the local army sports community until 1981 . Then she attended the children's and youth sports school in Rostock and started for the SC Empor Rostock until 1990 .

Her first international success was the second place at the Junior World Championships 1986 in Athens in the discus throw. There she only had to admit defeat to her teammate Ilke Wyludda in the GDR jersey . After that, given the dominance of other GDR discus throwers, she did not achieve any success at international highlights for years. At the Olympic Games in 1992 and the World Championships in 1991 and 1993 , she took part without reaching a front placement. At the 1995 World Championships , she finished seventh.

Their great successes did not follow until the end of the 1990s. From 1997 to 2001 she was always German champion . She won her first international title at senior level at the 1998 European Championships in Budapest. She also won the 1998 World Cup .

The big career leap finally followed in 1999. In Wiesbaden she set her personal best on May 8 with 69.51 m, and she won gold at the World Championships in Seville . At the Olympic Games in 2000 and the Games in 2004 , as well as at the World Championships in Edmonton in 2001 and in Paris in 2003 , she did not get into the medal ranks.

The next international title followed in 2005 when she won superiorly at the World Championships in Helsinki . She achieved a width of 66.56 m. With four of her five other throws, she would have beaten the silver and bronze medalists Natalja Sadowa (RUS) and Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová (CZE). She was also the favorite at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg , but then won the silver medal with a width of 64.35 m. Then she won the World Cup in Athens .

Franka Dietzsch after winning the gold medal at the 2007 World Championships

At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, she achieved the winning distance of 66.61 m with the first litter and thus won her third world championship. Darja Pishchalnikova (RUS) came second with a thrown 65.78 m, and third was the Cuban Yarelys Barrios (63.90 m).

In 2008, two weeks before the Beijing Olympics started , she canceled her participation. After suffering health problems earlier in the year, she found her form too bad to make it through to the finals. At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, she failed as 23rd with 58.44 m in qualification and then ended her career.

Franka Dietzsch switched from SC Empor Rostock to SC Neubrandenburg in 1990 when her Rostock coach Achim Müller was dismissed after the end of the GDR . There was Dieter Kollark their coach. According to the official competition information, she was 1.83 m tall and weighed 92 kg. She is a trained industrial clerk and bank clerk.

successes

Awards

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

Commons : Franka Dietzsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sport Bild : Olympia 2008 - Franka Dietzsch cancels participation in the Olympics ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , July 27, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sportbild.de
personal data
SURNAME Dietzsch, Franka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German discus thrower
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolgast