Gudrun Wegner

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Gudrun Wegner at the GDR Swimming Championships in East Berlin (1973)

Personal information
Surname: Gudrun Wegner
Nation: Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic
Swimming style (s) : Freestyle, layers
Birthday: February 28, 1955
Place of birth: Goerlitz
Date of death: January 16, 2005
Place of death: Dresden
Size: 1.75 m
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Medals

Gudrun Wegner (born February 28, 1955 in Görlitz ; † January 16, 2005 in Dresden ) was a German swimmer who started for the SC Einheit Dresden and the GDR .

Career

Their strongest routes were the long swimming distances, such as 400 meters or 800 meters freestyle and 400 meters medley .

At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , she won the bronze medal in the 400 meter freestyle. At the first swimming world championships in 1973 in Belgrade , she became world champion in the 400 meter medley with a new world record time of 4: 57.51 minutes and was also able to win the bronze medal in the 800 meter freestyle.

In 1974 she became vice European champion in the 400 meter medley and bronze medalist in the 800 meter freestyle at the European Swimming Championships in Vienna . In the same year she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

She succumbed to a in Dresden on January 16, 2005 of cancer .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Principles with questions . Saxon Newspaper / www.sz-online.de. January 19, 2005. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
  2. ↑ world champion. German Swimming Association, accessed on April 22, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland , November 30, 1974, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Wegner, Gudrun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 2005
Place of death Dresden