Kathrin Boyde

Kathrin Boyde (born Born , after remarrying Erlingis ; born December 4, 1970 in Naumburg (Saale) ) is a former German walker . It started for the GDR until 1990 .

Career

Kathrin Born from ASK Vorwärts Potsdam won the GDR championship in indoor walking at the age of 14 . In 1987 she finished third at the Junior European Championships, in 1989 she won the title. In 1991, now starting for SC Berlin , she was eleventh at the World Athletics Championships in 1991 , the following year she was only 33rd at the Olympic Games in the heat of Barcelona. 1993 followed the 15th place at the world championships in Stuttgart .

After marrying the long-distance runner Jens Boyde, she started as Kathrin Boyde for LC Breisgau from 1994 and from 1997 to 2000 for USC Freiburg . At the European Athletics Indoor Championships in 1994 , she finished eighth. Her best placement at the Olympic Games she reached in 1996 in Atlanta with the fifteenth place. By 1998, Kathrin Boyde had achieved eleven second places behind Beate Gummelt at German open-air championships since 1991 , and in 1998 she won the 10,000-meter run because Beate Gummelt took a baby break. Kathrin Boyde won two more German championship titles: 2000 in the 20 km street walking and 2002 in the hall.

After her divorce from Jens Boyde, she married the Lithuanian walker Gintaras Erlingis in 2003. In 2004 she ended her sporting career after twenty years.

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

Web links

• Kathrin Boyde in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Kathrin Boyde in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )