Lina Radke

Lina Radke
Lina Radke after her Olympic victory in 1928
Full name	Karoline Radke
nation	German Empire
birthday	October 18, 1903
place of birth	Karlsruhe ,  German Empire
size	169 cm
Weight	55 kg
date of death	February 14, 1983
Place of death	Karlsruhe ,  BR Germany
Career
Best performance	800 m: 2: 16.8 min 1000 m: 3: 06.5 min
society	VfB Breslau
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × German championships 3 × 2 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold Amsterdam 1928 800 m  German championships gold Braunschweig 1926 1000 m gold Wroclaw 1927 800 m gold Berlin 1928 800 m bronze Berlin 1928 4 × 100 m relay silver Lennep 1930 800 m silver Magdeburg 1931 800 m

Lina Radke (right) and Hitomi Kinue at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam (1928) .

Karoline "Lina" Radke (born October 18, 1903 in Karlsruhe as Karoline Batschauer ; † February 14, 1983 ibid) was a German athlete who won the 800-meter run at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam .

Karoline Batschauer came to athletics in 1924 in Baden-Baden , where her family had moved in 1917. In the 1920s she was the leading German middle-distance runner. In 1926 she won the German championships over 1000 meters. In 1927 she moved to the athletics department of the Karlsruhe FV . On August 7, 1927, she ran the 800 meters at the German championships, setting a new world record of 2: 23.8 minutes - the first of six world records and world records in her career. After marrying Georg Radke, she moved to Breslau and won this title in 1928.

Olympic Games 1928

In her Olympic victory on August 2, 1928, she won in a new world record time of 2: 16.8 min (first officially registered world record). This gold medal was the first for the German athletes and the first for the German women since the beginning of the Olympic Games in 1896.

The 800-meter run could only become part of the program for the 1928 Olympic Games after the foundation of the International Women's Sports Federation ( FSFI ). Thereafter, the discipline was removed from the program again, as women are said to be physically overwhelmed. From then on, all runs over 100 meters for women were blocked again. The 800-meter run did not become an Olympic discipline again until 1960 .

World bests / world records

• 800 m:
  • 2: 23.8 min ( Breslau , August 7, 1927)
  • 2: 19.6 min ( Brieg , July 1, 1928)
  • 2: 16.8 min ( Amsterdam , August 2, 1928)
• 1000 m:
  • 3: 06.5 min (Brieg, August 24, 1930)
• Participation in two relay world records

At the Women's World Athletics Games in London in 1934 , she reached third place over 800 meters (unofficially, because initially fourth: she advanced after the later disqualification of the winner Koubkova). After that these games were no longer played; thus there were no longer any middle-distance competitions for women at a high level. Lina Radke ended her active career to work as a trainer in Breslau. During her active time, Lina Radke was 1.69 m tall and weighed 55 kg.

Her victory time in the 800-meter run at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam was not broken as a German record until August 1954. Isolde Beichler from TSV Schwaben Augsburg improved him at the German Athletics Championships by five tenths of a second with 2: 16.3 minutes.

post war period

In 1945 she came as a displaced person via Sömmerda ( Thuringia ) to Torgau ( Saxony-Anhalt ). The gold medal was lost during the escape. It was later found in an estate in Cologne and awarded it a second time in 1956 by the National Olympic Committee of the GDR . In 1961, shortly before the Wall was built , the couple moved to Lina Radke's native city of Karlsruhe.

literature

• Otto Verhoeven:  Radke, Lina, born Batschauer. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 96 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Lina Radke  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Biography on Leichtathletik.de (German Athletics Association)
• Biography for the bad-bad.de project
• Lina Radke in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Fast Olympic Champion

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Two new German records set" in Pforzheimer Zeitung of August 9, 1954, p. 3