Gisela Weinreich

Gisela Weinreich medal table
Gliding
Germany
European championships
gold	1983	Women
gold	1985	Women
bronze	1987	Women
gold	1989	Women
gold	1991	Women
silver	1993	Women
silver	1995	Women
gold	1997	Women

Gisela Weinreich (* in Lübeck ) is a German glider pilot and five-time European champion .

Sports

Weinreich was a stewardess at Lufthansa . In 1979 she took part in the first European women's gliding championships in Hungary . Four years later she became, according to her own statement, "completely surprising", for the first time European champion in Saint-Hubert , Belgium. Weinreich defended her title in 1985 in Subotica , Yugoslavia. At the following competition in 1987 she won the bronze medal in Bulgaria. In 1989 she won the European Championship again in Soviet Oryol , which she successfully defended in 1991 in Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire . She won two runner-up championships in 1993 in the Czech Republic and in 1995 in Marpingen in Germany . Weinreich won her fifth title in 1997 in Prievidza , Slovakia. She flew in the 15 meter “racing class” with the competition number “WX”. She was also the first spokesperson for the women's national team.

Weinreich won the Barron Hilton Cup in 1996/1997. As a five-time European champion, she was considered the “best female glider pilot in the world” in the 1990s, as the first women's world championship was held in 2001. Weinreich has been a member of the Bad Homburg air sports club since 1980 and flies at Anspach airfield .

family

Weinreich is a former airline pilot and air sports - official Wolfgang Weinreich married. The couple has two sons.

Awards

Gisela Weinreich was awarded the second Pelagia Majewska medal from the world air sports association FAI in 1991 .

Web links

• Wolfgang Kullmann: Take off and landing in Russian . ( Frankfurter Neue Presse , as of May 9, 2015)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ aweu.org: History of the Women's International, European and now World Championships . (English, accessed February 20, 2020)