Inge Kilian

Inge Kilian
nation	Germany
birthday	June 3, 1935
place of birth	Geisenheim, Germany
size	170 cm
Weight	60 kg
job	Technical draftsman
Career
discipline	high jump
society	Eintracht Braunschweig
status	resigned
Medal table
German championships 6 × 0 × 0 ×
German championships gold Frankfurt am Main 1955 high jump gold Berlin 1956 high jump gold 1956 High jump (hall) gold Düsseldorf 1957 high jump gold Hanover 1957 high jump gold 1959 High jump (hall)
last change: November 13, 2018

Inge Kilian , after marriage Inge Offermann , (born June 3, 1935 in Geisenheim ) is a former German athlete who was successful as a high jumper in the late 1950s and competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics. She improved the German record several times.

Career

Inge Kilian was born in Geisenheim am Rhein and in her childhood the family moved to Braunschweig, where she started athletics at the age of 12 and joined a gymnastics club in 1948. In 1953 she was in Delmenhorst with a jumped height of 1.57 m German youth champion in the high jump.

She took part in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne , Australia , where she came in 18th with a skipped 1.55 m. This placement was disappointing after she broke the 18-year-old German record of Feodora zu Solms (1.64 m) in May of the same year and then improved this mark twice to 1.65 m and 1.66 m (for a medal she should have jumped 1.67 m in Melbourne). She was trained by Gerd Bode. Inge Kilian was 1.70 m tall and weighed 60 kg during her active time.

1958 was the year of her greatest successes. With a jump over 1.68 m she regained the German record that she had temporarily lost to Marlene Schmitz-Portz ( Ingrid Becker only screwed it to 1.69 m two years later ), and two months later she achieved the European Championships 1958 in Stockholm excellent 1.67 m, but she had the bad luck to come in fourth only because of the larger number of failed attempts.

Inge Kilian won a total of six German championships (1955, 1956, 1957 and 1958 as well as 1956 and 1959 in the hall).

Web links

• Inge Kilian in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Inge Kilian in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• http://www.leichtathletik-dgld.de/