Ingrid Schmidt (swimmer)
Ingrid Schmidt 
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Ingrid Schmidt in Magdeburg (1963) |
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| Surname: | Ingrid Schmidt | ||||||||||||||||||
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 German Democratic Republic
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| Swimming style (s) : | move | ||||||||||||||||||
| Birthday: | March 3, 1945 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Rudolstadt | ||||||||||||||||||
| Size: | 1.72 m | ||||||||||||||||||
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Ingrid Schmidt (born March 3, 1945 in Rudolstadt , after marrying Ingrid Naue ) is a former swimmer from the GDR . She was third in the 1960 Olympics with the individual relay.
Career
From 1959 to 1963 she set a total of 14 GDR records on the back legs . In 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1963 she was GDR champion on the 100 meter back course, in 1963 she also won the 200 meter back course. In Rome at the 1960 Olympic Games , she swam in the 4 × 100 meter layer relay, which won bronze for the all-German team. Ingrid Schmidt, Ursula Küper and Bärbel Fuhrmann from the GDR swam this season together with the FRG freestyle specialist Ursel Brunner 4: 47.6 minutes, but missed the European record, which the GDR single stage relay shortly before to 4: 46.7 minutes had asked. However, the relay would have finished with the European record time behind the US and Australian relays .
In 1962, she became European champion with the GDR's layer relay in a new world record time of 4: 40.1 minutes. For this performance, the layer relay with Ingrid Schmidt, Barbara Göbel , Ute Noack and Heidi Pechstein was voted Team of the Year in the GDR . In the same year she received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. It started first for the BSG unit Greiz and later for the SC DHfK Leipzig .
Private
Ingrid Schmidt later became a doctor and moved to the Federal Republic in 1984.
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 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , September 13, 1962, p. 2
Web links
- Ingrid Schmidt (swimmer) in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
- Ingrid Schmidt in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Schmidt, Ingrid |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Naue, Ingrid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rudolstadt |