Ine Schäffer

Inga "Ine" Schäffer , b. Mayer-Bojana , later Ina Spreitz (born March 28, 1923 , † March 19, 2009 in Victoria , Canada ) was an Austrian athlete who won a medal in the shot put at the 1948 Olympic Games .

Ine Mayer-Bojana became Austrian champion in the shot put and discus throw in 1943 . At the German Championships in 1943 she was second behind Lilli Unbescheid in the shot put.

After the Second World War, Ine Schäffer became Austrian champion in the shot put and discus throw in 1948. At the Olympic Games in London in 1948, she hit the ball on the Austrian record of 13.08 m and was third behind the French Micheline Ostermeyer (13.75 m) and the Italian Amelia Piccinini (13.10 m).

Ine Schäffer set five national records in the shot put from 1943 to 1950. Her personal bests were 13.27 m in the shot put (1950) and 42.53 m in the discus throw (1949).

In 1952 she emigrated to Canada, where she married the trainer and later filmmaker Karl Spreitz in 1953 .

literature

• Erich Kamper and Karl Graf: Austria's Athletics in Names and Numbers , Graz 1986 ISBN 3-7011-7169-6
• Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Fields Athletics , Berlin 1999, published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV

Web links

• Ine Schäffer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ina Spreitz Obituary. The Times Colonist, April 11, 2009, accessed April 17, 2019 .