Heike Hartwig

Heike Hartwig became GDR champion in 1987

Heike Hartwig (born Dittrich ; born December 30, 1962 in Bernburg (Saale) ) is a former athlete from the German Democratic Republic . The shot putter from SC Dynamo Berlin had been represented at GDR championships since 1981, from 1984 to 1990 she represented the GDR at international championships. After the fall of the Berlin Wall she remained active at OSC Berlin until 1993 .

Career

Her first international championships were the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Gothenburg in 1984 , where she finished sixth under her maiden name with 19.50 m. In 1985 , starting as Heike Hartwig, she won her first GDR championship title in the hall. At the European Indoor Championships in Piraeus , she hit the ball to 19.93 m and received bronze for it. In the open air she was runner-up in the GDR behind Ines Müller .

In the 1986 indoor season she also took second place at the GDR championships, this time behind Heidi Krieger , while Ines Müller was again ahead of her outdoors. At the European Athletics Championships in Stuttgart , Krieger won the title ahead of Müller, Heike Hartwig took fifth place with 20.14 m. In 1987 she won the GDR championship titles indoors and outdoors.

At the European Indoor Championships in 1987 in Liévin she received bronze with 20.00 m, two centimeters behind Heidi Krieger in second place. At the World Athletics Championships in Rome , Heike Hartwig managed a push to 20.63 m, with which she nevertheless only finished sixth, 13 centimeters behind Ines Müller in third place.

On May 16, 1988 Heike Hartwig managed the longest shot of her career in Athens with 21.31 m, a week later she hit 21.27 m in Chania. At the GDR outdoor championships in 1988 Heike Hartwig took third place behind Kathrin Neimke and Ines Müller , so these three shot putters were qualified for the Olympic Games. At the Olympic Games in Seoul Neimke won silver with 21.07 m, Heike Hartwig was sixth with 20.20 m.

In 1989, Heike Hartwig won the GDR championships indoors and outdoors, just like in 1987. At the European Indoor Championships in The Hague in mid-February, she finished second behind Stephanie Storp from Wolfsburg with 20.03 m . 14 days later, the World Indoor Athletics Championships took place in Budapest . Storp with 19.63 m and Hartwig with 19.44 m took fourth and fifth place, with Claudia Losch , Huang Zhihong and Christa Wiese, three pusher women who had not been there in The Hague , placed in the first three places . In 1990 Heike Hartwig won the title at the last GDR championships outdoors. At the European Championships in Split , she finished sixth with 18.90 m, making it only the fifth-best German. The European champion was a young shot putter who had not competed in the GDR championships: Astrid Kumbernuss .

Heike Hartwig was 1.81 m tall and had a competition weight of 95 kg.

literature

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

Web links

• Heike Hartwig in the database of World Athletics (English)