Heike Balck

Heike Balck
nation	DDR Germany
birthday	19th August 1970
place of birth	Schwerin ,  GDR
size	180 cm
Weight	59 kg
Career
discipline	high jump
Best performance	2.01 m
society	Schweriner SC
status	resigned
End of career	1997
Medal table
EM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Junior World Championships bronze Birmingham 1987 high jump  Indoor world championships bronze Seville 1991 high jump

Heike Balck (born August 19, 1970 in Schwerin ) is a former German athlete who was successful in the high jump in the 1980s and 1990s . It started for GDR until 1990 . On June 12, 1989, she jumped 2.01 m in Karl-Marx-Stadt and thus equalized the junior world record set by Olga Turtschak , USSR , on July 5, 1986. The world record lasted for over 30 years until Yaroslav Mahutschich , Ukraine , surpassed him by three centimeters on September 30, 2019.

She was twice GDR champion (1989: 1.97 m; 1990: 1.95 m) and twice German champion (1994: 1.90 m; 1997: 1.96 m).

Starts at international highlights

• 1987, Junior European Championships: 3rd place (1.84 m)
• 1989
  • European Cup: 3rd place (1.94 m)
  • World Cup: 3rd place (1.94 m)
• 1990, European Championships : 5th place (1.89 m)
• 1991:
  • Indoor World Championships : 3rd place (1.94 m)
  • World Championships : 12th place (1.84 m)
• 1993, World Championships : Failed to qualify
• 1994:
  • European Championships : 6th place (1.93 m)
  • World Cup: 4th place (1.88 m)
• 1995, World Championships : Failed to qualify
• 1997
  • European Cup: 1st place (1.94 m)
  • World Championships : 10th place (1.90 m)

Heike Balck belonged to SC Traktor Schwerin until 1989 and then to Schweriner SC , only in 1992 she started for SC Magdeburg . During her competition time she was 1.80 m tall and 59 kg heavy.

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft, p. 41

Footnotes

1. ↑ DLV yearbook 2014, Cologne 2014 ISBN 978-3-9813838-5-0 p. 168
2. ^ High Jump Series Result. In: iaaf.org. Retrieved September 30, 2019 .