Ilse Geisler

Ilse Geisler
nation	German Democratic Republic
birthday	January 10, 1941
place of birth	Kunnersdorf
size	168 cm
Weight	60 kg
job	Teacher
Career
discipline	Single seater
society	SC tractor Oberwiesenthal
status	resigned
End of career	1967
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 0 × 1 × GDR championship 0 × 1 × 2 ×
winter Olympics silver 1964 Innsbruck Single seater  Luge World Championships gold 1962 Krynica-Zdrój Single seater gold 1963 Imst Single seater bronze 1965 Davos Single seater GDR Luge Championships silver 1964 Friedrichroda Single seater bronze 1965 Oberhof Single seater bronze 1967 Oberhof Single seater
last change: January 17, 2012

Ilse Geisler , also Ilse Geißler and Ilse Vorderschach-Geißler (born January 10, 1941 in Kunnersdorf ) is a former German luge athlete .

In 1953, Ilse Geisler was promoted to tobogganing by her sports teacher Bernfried Baron through a campaign by the Young Pioneers in Kunnersdorf . In 1958 the athlete , who started for SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal , was eighth at the European Junior Championships. In 1959 she suffered such severe arm injuries in a fall in Weißenbach, Austria , that she did not return to the GDR national team until 1962. Right away she managed to win the title at the World Championships in Krynica-Zdrój . She was able to successfully defend her world championship title in Imst in 1963 . Then in June 1963 she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver . At the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1964 , she won the silver medal behind her clubmate Ortrun Enderlein . At the 1965 World Championships in Davos , she took third place. Two years later she just missed the medal ranks at the world championships in Hammarstrand as fourth and finished third again at the GDR championship in Oberhof.

The trained farmer had been studying at the "Edwin Hoernle" institute for teacher training in Radebeul since 1959 and then worked as a teacher in Wittgendorf . Later she also worked in the public education department of the Stralsund district council . In 1987 she worked as a day care teacher at the Lenin High School in Stralsund.

literature

• Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR. Your successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 .

Web links

• Ilse Geisler in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Wittgendorferin created a toboggan sensation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland, edition v. February 5, 1964, p. 8.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Volker Kluge: The large lexicon of GDR athletes , Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000 ISBN 3-89602-348-9
3. ↑ ND v. June 27, 1963, p. 2.
4. ↑ ND v. February 20, 1967, p. 6.
5. ↑ ND v. February 25, 1967, p. 8.
6. ↑ ND v. January 27, 1987, p. 7.