Gertrude Liebhart

Gertrude Liebhart (born October 26, 1928 ) is a former Austrian canoeist . She won the silver medal at the 1952 Olympics .

At the Olympic Games in London in 1948 and Helsinki in 1952, only one competition was held for women, the one over 500 meters. At the London Games, the competitions were held on the Thames near Henley . Karen Hoff from Denmark won in the first , Fritzi Schwingl from Austria came in third . Four days after the singles final, the world championship in non-Olympic two-person kayak was also held in Henley. It won Karen Hoff together with Bodil Svendsen before the Czechoslovak boat; Fritzi Schwingl and Gertrude Liebhart received bronze. Two years later the Canoe World Championships took place in Copenhagen. The Finns Sylvi Saimo and Greta Grönholm won in the two-person kayak , followed by Schwingl and Liebhart who received the silver medal. 1952 in Helsinki the canoe competitions took place in the Taivalahti Bay in Helsinki. Sylvi Saimo won the race in front of a home crowd with four tenths of a second ahead of Gertrude Liebhart, three seconds later the third placed, Nina Sawina from the Soviet Union, crossed the finish line.

Overall, Austria won two medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics, both in canoeing, apart from the silver medal for Gertrude Liebhart, there was also a bronze medal for Max Raub and Herbert Wiedermann in a two-person kayak. After Fritzi Schwingl and Gertrude Liebhart, it took 56 years until another Austrian canoeist received an Olympic medal. In 2008 Violetta Oblinger-Peters won bronze in the canoe slalom.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .

Web links

• Gertrude Liebhart in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Canoe World Championships

Individual evidence

1. ↑ diepresse.com from August 15, 2008 (accessed June 11, 2009)