Helga Radtke

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Helga Radtke (1989)

Helga Radtke (born May 16, 1962 in Sanitz ) is a former German athlete who was successful in the long jump and triple jump from 1979 to the mid-1990s . It started for the GDR until 1990 . She won the bronze medal in the long jump at the European Championships in 1986 and 1990 and was successful several times at Indoor World and Indoor European Championships.

Life

She won the gold medal in the long jump at the Junior European Championships in 1979. In 1983 she became Vice European Champion in the hall . Bronze was won by Heike Drechsler , who was to become Radtke's permanent competitor in the following years and usually ended up ahead of her. At the first World Championships in Helsinki Radtke reached twelfth place. At the European Indoor Championships in 1985 she jumped to fourth place and at the 1985 World Indoor Games she won gold.

In the following year, Radtke was vice European indoor champion for the second time and in Stuttgart she jumped to third place at the 1986 European championships , thus winning her first outdoor medal. In 1987 she became vice world champion in the hall , but at the world championships in Rome she missed a medal with fourth place. In 1990 she won the bronze medal at both the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow and the European Championships in Split.

In Tokyo, Radtke did not reach the final at the 1991 World Championships . The following year she took part in her first Olympic Games in Barcelona , but again did not get beyond the qualification. Meanwhile, the triple jump had been opened for women. At the indoor world championships in 1993 she reached fifth place in the still young discipline. At the World Championships in Stuttgart she did not make it to the final in the long jump, but in the triple jump she was fifth. At the European Championships in 1994 , she was eighth in the triple jump. She also won the European Cup that year .

In 1989 she was East German champion in the long jump. In the hall she won the title in 1985 and 1990. In the triple jump she was in 1993 and 1994 in the hall and in the free German champion. Radtke set her personal best in the long jump with 7.21 meters in 1984 in Dresden. In the triple jump she improved the German record several times . In 1992 she was the first German to jump more than 14 meters. Her longest set of 14.46 meters from 1994 remained a record until Katja Demut exceeded the distance in 2011. In the hall she jumped in 1993 with 14.03 meters German indoor record, which did not last that long.

Helga Radtke initially belonged to the SC Empor Rostock , later to the LAC Quelle . During her active time, the qualified sports teacher was 1.70 m tall and weighed 64 kg. In the documents on state doping in the GDR that became public after the fall of the Wall , the name of Radtke was also found among the doped athletes.

Assignments at international highlights in detail

  • 1979, Junior European Championships: 1st place (6.22 - invalid - 6.10 - 6.47 m - invalid - 6.35)
  • 1983, European Indoor Championships: 2nd place (invalid - 6.48 - 6.47 - invalid - 6.63 m - 6.52)
  • 1983, World Championships : 12th place (6.37 - 6.35 - 6.44 m )
  • 1985, Indoor World Games: 1st place (6.74 - 6.72 - 6.81 - 6.82 - 6.86 - 6.88 m )
  • 1985, European Indoor Championships: 4th place (invalid - 6.89 m - invalid - 6.73 - invalid - 6.74)
  • 1986, European Indoor Championships: 2nd place (invalid - 6.80 - 6.91 - 5.41 - 6.82 - 6.94 m )
  • 1986, European Championships : 3rd place (6.63 - 6.89 m - 6.64 - invalid - 6.89 - invalid)
  • 1987, Indoor World Championships: 2nd place (invalid - 6.67 - 6.90 - 6.29 - invalid - 6.94 m )
  • 1987, World Championships : 4th place (6.95 - 6.56 - 7.01 m - invalid - invalid - 6.95)
  • 1990, European Indoor Championships: 3rd place (6.41 - 6.51 - 6.55 - 6.55 - 6.66 m - 6.33)
  • 1990, European Championships : 3rd place (invalid - invalid - 6.64 - invalid - invalid - 6.94 m )
  • 1991, World Championships : eliminated in qualification
  • 1992, European Indoor Championships: 5th place in the long jump (6.36 - invalid - invalid - 6.29 - 6.43 m - 6.25); 3rd place in the triple jump (invalid - 13.59 - invalid - invalid - 13.75 m - invalid)
  • 1992, Olympic Games : Eliminated in qualification
  • 1993, World Indoor Championships, 5th place in the triple jump (13.52 - 13.95 m - invalid - 13.56 - invalid - invalid)
  • 1993, World Championships : eliminated in qualification in long jump; Triple jump: 5th place (invalid - 13.86 - invalid - 14.01 - 13.77 - 14.19 m )
  • 1994, European Indoor Championships: 8th place in the long jump, (6.40 - 6.31 - 6.31 - 6.28 - 6.45 m - 6.43); Triple jump: 7th place (13.78 - 13.75 - invalid - invalid - 13.79 - 13.92 m )
  • 1994, European Championships : eliminated in the long jump qualification; Triple jump: 8th place (moved up after disqualification of fourth place, 13.77 m - 13.60 - 13.52)

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Gantenberg / Christian Fuchs: Katja Demut jumps German record , www.leichtathletik.de June 13, 2011
  2. ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 183
personal data
SURNAME Radtke, Helga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German long and triple jumper
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Sanitz