Liana Winter
Liane Winter (born June 24, 1942 ) is a former German long-distance runner who was a pioneer of the marathon in the 1970s .
Career
On April 21, 1975, she became the first foreign woman to win the Boston Marathon . Her time of 2:42:24 h was also a world record .
The year before, she had already set German marathon records in Wolfsburg and Waldniel . She set another German record with 37:16 minutes in the 10-kilometer road race on July 31, 1977 in Bruges . In 1979 she became German champion in the marathon . In the course of her sports career, she competed in 50 marathons, the last one at the age of 50.
Liane Winter started for the sports club VfL Wolfsburg . She was a commercial clerk at Volkswagen AG until she was 60 . Since the 1990s she has suffered from multiple sclerosis , which made it impossible for her to walk. For a while she was still doing sports on a handbike . Today she lives in a nursing home.
Web links
- Liane Winter - The sporty all-rounder turned 60 , article by Georg Reinmuth on the website of the community of interests of long-distance runners
- A woman from Wolfsburg who made marathon history , interview with the Aller newspaper, July 18, 2006
- The arms keep running , article by Friedhard Teuffel in the Tagesspiegel on the occasion of her participation in the handbike race of the Berlin Marathon , September 29, 2007
- What is actually ...? Liane Winter , article by Alexander Pochert on Leichtathletik.de, April 7, 2008
Individual evidence
- ^ Boston Marathon History: 1971-1975. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 26, 2013 ; accessed on January 10, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| SURNAME | Winter, liana |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German long-distance runner and marathon pioneer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1942 |