Inese Jaunzeme

Inese Jaunzeme

Inese Jaunzeme (born May 21, 1932 in Pļaviņas , Latvia ; † February 13, 2011 in Riga ) was a Soviet athlete of Latvian origin. With a height of 1.69 m, her competition weight was 70 kg.

She trained at Dinamo Riga . Third in the 1956 Soviet Javelin Throwing Championships , Inese Jaunzeme was just able to qualify for the Olympic Games with 50.84 m . In Melbourne she was sixth of the qualification with 46.19 m. In the final she threw three Olympic records and was Olympic champion with 53.86 m ahead of Chilean Marlene Ahrens (with 50.38 m). She received the Order of the Red Banner of Labor of the Soviet Union in 1957 .

She had her personal best of 55.73 m in 1960.

After completing her sports career, Inese Jaunzeme studied medicine . She then worked as a traumatologist and plastic surgeon and taught at the Traumatological Institute of Stradiņš University in Riga .

In 1999 she became president of the Latvian Olympic Association (Latvijas olimpiešu kluba) .

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Fields Athletics , Berlin 1999, published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Mirusi pirmā olimpiskā zelta medaļniece Inese Jaunzeme (nra.lv, February 13, 2011, Latvian, accessed August 1, 2014)
2. ↑ Inese, Inese, Inese ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (sporto.lv, Latvian, accessed August 1, 2014) 

Web links

Commons : Inese Jaunzeme  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Inese Jaunzeme in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Inese Jaunzemes obituary on Diena.lv (Latvian)