Margitta Gummel

Margitta Gummel
Gummel at the GDR championships, June 1971
nation	GDR
birthday	June 29, 1941
place of birth	Magdeburg ,  German Empire
size	177 cm
Weight	90 kg
date of death	January 26, 2021
Place of death	Wietmarschen ,  Germany
Career
discipline	Shot put
Best performance	20.22 m (1972)
society	SC Wissenschaft DHfK Leipzig
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 0 × European championships 0 × 2 × 1 × European Indoor Championships 1 × 2 × 0 × GDR championships 5 × 2 × 2 × GDR indoor championships 3 × 2 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold 1968 Mexico City Shot put silver 1972 Munich Shot put  European championships silver 1966 Budapest Shot put silver 1969 Athens Shot put bronze 1971 Helsinki Shot put  European Indoor Championships gold 1966 Dortmund Shot put silver 1968 Madrid Shot put silver 1971 Sofia Shot put GDR championships bronze 1963 Jena Shot put silver 1964 Jena Shot put bronze 1965 Karl-Marx-Stadt Shot put gold 1966 Jena Shot put silver 1967 hall Shot put gold 1968 Erfurt Shot put gold 1969 Berlin Shot put gold 1971 Leipzig Shot put gold 1972 Erfurt Shot put GDR indoor championships silver 1964 Berlin Shot put silver 1965 Berlin Shot put gold 1966 Berlin Shot put gold 1968 Berlin Shot put gold 1971 Berlin Shot put

Margitta Gummel (born June 29, 1941 in Magdeburg as Margitta Helmbold ; † January 26, 2021 in Wietmarschen ), was a German athlete and Olympic champion from 1968 who was one of the world's best shot putters in the 1960s and 1970s .

Life

She started at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 and was fifth with 16.91 m. At the first European indoor games she won gold with 17.30 m in Dortmund in 1966 and silver (17.05 m) at the European Championships in Budapest in the same year. The following year she took second place (17.66 m) at the European Cup in Kiev . In Havana that year she improved the GDR record to 17.69 m.

In September 1968 Margitta Gummel first improved the GDR record to 18.43 m and shortly thereafter hit the world record with 18.87 m. In October she won the gold medal at the Olympics in Mexico City . In her Olympic competition she set two more world records: At 19.07 m and 19.61 m (set on October 20, 1968), she was the first woman to exceed the 19-meter mark. With this, Margitta Gummel, at the age of 27, had increased her personal best by almost two meters within a year. In the same year she was voted GDR sportswoman of the year .

Her greatest rival was Nadezhda Tschischowa ( USSR ). Behind her, she came second at the European Championships in 1966 , 1969 and 1971 . On September 11, 1969, Margitta Gummel set another world record in Berlin with a width of 20.11 m, which Nadjeschda Tschischowa improved five days later. Margitta Gummel also won silver behind her at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich .

From 1959 Margitta Gummel started for the SC DHfK Leipzig and trained with Karl-Heinz Bauersfeld . In the documents on doping in the GDR that became public after the reunification , there were also doping doses of her.

After the 1972 Olympic Games, she retired from active sports. She became the mother of a daughter in 1976; She received her doctorate in 1977 . She initially worked in a sports research institute in Leipzig and later worked as a sports functionary in the DTSB federal board and in the DVfL ( German Association for Athletics of the GDR) and, after the end of the GDR, until 1993 at the Brandenburg State Sports Association . It belonged to the NOK of the GDR and until 1993 to the NOK for Germany. Then she moved to Bad Bentheim .

Margitta Gummel died in Wietmarschen at the age of 79 after a long illness.

Awards (selection)

• 1968: Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
• 1972: Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold

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 .
• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical Handbook on the History of German Athletics 1898-2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.
• Short biography for:  Gummel, Margitta . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Margitta Gummel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Margitta Gummel in the Olympedia.org database (English)
• Margitta Gummel in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Margitta Gummel-Helmbold. In: sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on January 21, 2009 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Olympic champion Margitta Gummel is dead. In: n-tv.de . January 27, 2021, accessed January 27, 2021 . 
2. ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , pp. 134-135.
3. ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , pp. 131-144.
   The doping findings of the GDR scientists are used worldwide to this day. Doping in the GDR (6): The history of anabolic steroids - from Margitta Gummel to the American Mike Stulce: From Jena around the globe. In: Berliner Zeitung . April 11, 1994, accessed January 28, 2021 .