Helma Knorscheidt

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Helma Teuscher at the EVACS in Ancona (2009)

Helma Knorscheidt (born December 31, 1956 in Nauendorf ), married Helma Teuscher , is a German athlete who - starting for the GDR - was one of the world's best shot putters in the early 1980s .

Life

She won silver at the Universiade 1979 and gold in 1981 in Bucharest. At the European Indoor Championships in 1981 she was third and at the European Championships in 1982 sixth (20.10 - 19.64 - 20.21 - invalid - 20.15 - 20.21 m ). In 1983 she won silver at the European Indoor Championships . Her greatest success is the silver medal at the 1983 World Championships in Helsinki (20.30 - 20.70 m - 20.55 - 20.47 - invalid - 20.25).

In 1984 she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

Helma Knorscheidt started for the SC Chemie Halle . During her competition time she was 1.76 m tall and weighed 90 kg. In the documents on state doping in the GDR that became public after the fall of the Wall , the name of Knorscheidt was found among the doped athletes.

As a senior, Helma Teuscher continues to be active in sports. One of her greatest successes is the title in the shot put W50 to the XVII. World Athletics Championships 2007 in Riccione (Italy) with 14.40 m (3 kg ball), as well as the shot put world record W50 at the Senior European Championships 2008 in Ljubljana with 14.94 m (was surpassed by Alexandra Marghieva in 2009 ) .

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.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Germany , 1./2. September 1984, p. 4
  2. ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 182
  3. ↑ Athletics: Insight into the horror cabinet . In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 1998 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Summary of the results of the XVII. Senior Athletics Championships 2007. (PDF; 2.8 MB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 12, 2012 ; Retrieved March 23, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.world-masters-athletics.org
  5. ↑ Results of the Senior European Championship 2008 in Ljubljana. (PDF; 1.0 MB) Retrieved March 23, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Report on Leichtathletik.de from July 27, 2008
  7. ↑ All Time Ranking Shot Put Women at mastersathletics.net

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personal data
SURNAME Knorscheidt, Helma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Teuscher, Helma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German shot putter
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Nauendorf (Saalekreis)