Johanna Klier

Johanna Schaller (front) 1977

Johanna Klier (née Schaller ; born September 13, 1952 in Artern ) is a former German athlete who competed for the GDR .

Life

Johanna Klier grew up in Nordhausen , started her athletic career at BSG Lok Nordhausen and is a former German hurdler who became an Olympic champion in 1976 for the GDR on her special route, the 100-meter hurdles .

In 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1980 she was GDR champion.

At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montréal, she won the gold medal in the 100-meter hurdles ahead of Tatiana Anissimowa and Natalja Lebedjewa from the Soviet Union. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow she won the silver medal as Johanna Klier behind Wera Komissowa from the USSR and in front of Lucyna Langer from Poland .

Johanna Klier is 1.75 m tall and weighed 66 kg during her active time.

Awards

• 1976 - Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver
• 1980 - Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze

literature

• Johanna Klier , in Internationales Sportarchiv 00/1986 from January 1, 1986, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Esther Goldberg: Johanna Klier and the tenth hurdle. In: Thüringer Allgemeine , December 10, 2011 ( online )
• Uwe Jentzsch: Johanna Klier is celebrating her birthday and is flying to Montreal. In: Thüringer Allgemeine, September 13, 2012 ( online )
• Volker Kluge : Lexicon athletes in the GDR . New Life, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-355-01759-6 , pp. 222-223 .
• Olaf W. Reimann:  Schaller, Johanna . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Johanna Klier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Portrait on the website of the city of Erfurt
• Johanna Schaller-Klier in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In: New Germany . ZEFYS newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (free registration required). 
2. ↑ Neues Deutschland, August 22, 1980, p. 3