Karin Beyer

Karin Beyer
Karin Beyer (center) in Leipzig (1962)
Personal information
Surname:	Karin Beyer
Nation:	German Democratic Republic
Swimming style (s) :	chest
Birthday:	July 30, 1941
Place of birth:	Halberstadt

Karin Beyer (born July 30, 1941 in Halberstadt ), married to Karin Harzer , is a former German swimmer who competed for the GDR . On July 20, 1958, she set the first world record for a GDR swimmer in Berlin and improved it a little later. In 1958, she was voted the first GDR female athlete of the year .

The only major international competition in which she took part was the 1958 European Championship in Budapest , where she came fourth with the GDR layer relay. In 1960 she failed in the qualifying elimination for the Olympic Games in Rome .

Karin Beyer started for the SC Chemie Halle and the SC Rotation Leipzig and trained with Liesl Kaufmann . After the end of her swimming career, she became a sports teacher in Halle-Neustadt .

Former world records

• 100 meter chest : 1: 20.3 min. ( July 20, 1958 in Berlin )
• 100 meter chest: 1: 19.6 minutes ( September 12, 1958 in Leipzig )
• 200 meter chest : 2: 48.0 min. ( August 5, 1961 in Budapest )

literature

• Short biography for:  Beyer, Karin . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .