Kerstin Gerschau
Kerstin Gerschau (born January 26, 1958 in Leipzig , after marrying Kerstin Kurrat ) is a former German gymnast . Your home club was the SC Leipzig .
Although Kerstin Gerschau had not yet won a medal at GDR championships, she started at the 1973 European gymnastics championship in London. In the all-around competition she won the bronze medal behind the two Soviet gymnasts Lyudmila Turishcheva and Olga Korbut . Kerstin Gerschau reached all four machine finals and won silver behind Turishcheva. In 1974 she won the GDR championship on the balance beam. At the GDR championship in 1976, she won silver on the floor and on the uneven bars and bronze in the horse jump and qualified fourth in the all-around for the Olympic team. In Montreal at the 1976 Olympics , she finished ninth in the eight-fight and third place with the team. In seventh place on the uneven bars, she narrowly missed the finals of the six best gymnasts.
Kerstin Gerschau married the sprinter Klaus-Dieter Kurrat , with whom she has three children. She studied choreography and theater at the Leipzig Theater Academy and graduated from the German University for Physical Culture as a certified sports teacher. After the reunification she ran a fitness studio and worked as a sports teacher at the Potsdam Sports Center. Kerstin Kurrat leads her own show dance group.
literature
- Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 .
Web links
- Kerstin Gerschau in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- GDR champions
- Portrait at Kurrat Showdance
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gerschau, Kerstin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kurrat, Kerstin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German gymnast |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |