Ingrid Krämer-Gulbin

Ingrid Krämer (21 years old) taking a break while qualifying for the 1964 Summer Olympics

Ingrid Krämer (center) at the award ceremony in art jumping in Rome in 1960

Ingrid Krämer-Gulbin (born July 29, 1943 as Ingrid Krämer in Dresden ) is a former GDR water diver who won three gold medals and one silver medal for the all-German team at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics .

In 1963 Ingrid Krämer married the weightlifter Hein Engel; until her divorce in 1965 she was called Engel-Krämer. Three months after her divorce, she married Helmut Gulbin in 1965 and took the name Krämer-Gulbin.

Athletic career

She had started competitive sports training at the age of 12. In 1958, at the age of 15, she became GDR champion on the 3-meter board. She trained at the sports club Einheit Dresden under Eveline Sibinski . She later started for the Empor Rostock sports club .

1960 Summer Olympics

Under her maiden name Ingrid Krämer, as a 17-year-old, she won both competitions in water jumping at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome - from the 3-meter board and the 10-meter tower. With that she broke the winning streak of the USA jumpers, who had won all Olympic victories since 1924. The victories came as a surprise to the professional world, because the USA jumpers had won 40 out of 51 possible medals in Olympic diving by then. According to Ingrid Krämer, the Chinese Fu Mingxia achieved an Olympic double victory at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta only 36 years later .

Ingrid Krämer started in an all-German Olympic team in which the best athletes from the two German states that were then separated were represented. After her Olympic success, she was voted Sportswoman of the Year not only in the GDR, but also in the Federal Republic of Germany . After her spectacular success, she received the exceptional permission to take one-to-one tuition for her Abitur.

1964 Summer Olympics

Krämer at the Olympic elimination in Cologne in 1964

After her marriage (and moving to Rostock ) she took part in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo under the name Ingrid Engel-Krämer. She carried the German flag (black-red-gold with Olympic rings) for the joint German team during the opening ceremony, started in both disciplines of diving and won the gold medal from the 3-meter board and the silver medal from the 10-meter tower.

Further stations in life

Because of injuries that had often occurred before, she never jumped from the 10-m tower again after the Olympic Games in 1964, but only from the 3-m board.

After the birth of their first daughter in 1966, she won the 1967 European diving championship in Helsinki . The preparation for the 1968 Summer Olympics was interrupted by months of jaundice , and she only came in fifth.

After her sports career, she became a qualified sports teacher and worked in Halle (Saale) as a water diver trainer. She trained the internationally successful jumpers Martina Jäschke and Beate Jahn . Because of a spinal problem, she was temporarily a sports official. Later, as a trainer again, she discovered the talent of the later Olympic medal winner Jan Hempel in kindergarten and looked after the successful water divers Michael Kühne , Heiko Meyer and Annett Gamm .

After the end of the GDR, she lost her coaching position and worked as a bank clerk.

Further honors

Bronze figure high diver or Ingrid Krämer at the swimming pool Freiberger Platz in Dresden

Ingrid Krämer-Gulbin was also named GDR Sportswoman of the Year in 1962, 1963 and 1964 after 1960. The sculptor Fritz Cremer created a bronze monument of her, which later found its place on the roof of the Springerhalle on Freiberger Platz in Dresden. In 1975 she was inducted into the international swimming pool 's hall of fame . In 1960 and 1962 she received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and in 1964 in gold.

In 2011 she was inducted into the Hall of Fame of German Sports .

In 2000, she was voted one of the "100 Dresdeners of the 20th Century" in the daily newspaper Dresdner Latest Nachrichten .

literature

• Rolf Dietz: Golden leaps. A book about Ingrid Krämer. Sports publishing house, Berlin 1963.
• Short biography for:  Krämer, Ingrid . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Ingrid Krämer  - Collection of Images

• Ingrid Krämer-Gulbin in the International Swimming Hall of Fame (English)
• Portrait, dates and biography of Ingrid Krämer-Gulbin in the Hall of Fame of German Sports

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 100 Dresden residents of the 20th century . In: Dresdner Latest News . December 31, 1999, p. 22 .