Jutta Kirst

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Jutta Kirst , b. Krautwurst (born November 10, 1954 in Dresden ) is a former German athlete and Olympic medalist who - starting for the GDR - was one of the world's top high jumpers in the 1970s and 1980s .

Life

Her greatest success is third place at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow (1.94 m). She also started, but without medal success, at the European Championships 1978 (fourth place: 1.93 m) and the European Championships 1982 (fifth place: 1.94 m).

In 1975 and 1976 she was third at the GDR championships under her maiden name Jutta Krautwurst. In 1978 she was GDR champion and in 1981 and 1982 she jumped to second place. Jutta Kirst's best performance was 1.97 m in 1982.

Kirst started for SC Dynamo Berlin and trained with Klaus Beer (Olympic silver medalist in the long jump 1968). In her active days she was 1.78 m tall and weighed 59 kg. In the documents on state doping in the GDR that became public after the fall of the Wall , the name of Kirst was also found among the doped athletes. Since the book only provides information about the allocation of performance-enhancing drugs, no well-founded and truthful statement can be made about the actual use of prohibited substances.

She married Edgar Kirst , the brother of the European decathlon champion Joachim Kirst . Her daughter Kathleen Kirst, multiple German youth champion and seventh in the European youth championships in high jump, ended her sports career early due to an injury. Jutta Kirst has a degree as a certified sports teacher and after her sports career was employed by SC Dynamo Berlin. After the end of the GDR, she worked as a physiotherapist in Dresden.

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 182

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personal data
SURNAME Kirst, Jutta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krautwurst, Jutta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and Olympic medalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden