Maria Keller (athlete)

Maria Keller , later married Maria Keller-Siller , (born November 22, 1893 in Hirtenberg , Austria-Hungary , † 1990 ) was an Austrian athlete .

Life

Maria Keller was born on November 22nd, 1893 in the village of Hirtenberg in Triestingtal . She was considered versatile and appeared in various sports. She was active as a skier and swimmer . Mainly, however, she appeared in athletics and won numerous championships in this sport and set new Austrian records. As a member of the Danubia women's sports club , she was Austrian champion nine times between 1918 and 1921. Including in the years 1918, 1919 and 1921 in the 100-meter run , in the high jump and in the long jump . She is also a multiple Austrian record holder over 100 meters, in high jump and long jump. On December 2, 1917, the then 17-year-old Adele Bierbrauer undercut the record over 100 meters with a time of 14.4 seconds on April 14, 1918 with a time of 13.9 seconds. Just two weeks later, she undercut her own personal best and set another Austrian national record with a time of 13.2 seconds. On December 2, 1917, Keller set a new Austrian high jump record with a height of 1.25 meters and on April 14, 1918, he already reached a height of 1.30 meters. On June 9, 1918, her record was broken by Helene Rittenauer (* 1894; †?). Already on June 30, 1918, she managed to jump over 1.33 meters and almost one year later to the day, on June 28, 1919, she made a jump of 1.39 meters. The first three noted Austrian long jump records for women are also attributable to Maria Keller. On April 28, 1918, it set a new Austrian record with a width of 4.63. She surpassed this on June 15, 1919 and made it to 4.82 meters; at another competition in Berlin on July 24, 1921, she was able to improve again and achieved a new Austrian long jump record for women with 5.12 meters. She also appeared in discus throwing , shot put and relay races. Hardly anything is known about her later life.

literature

• Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 2: I-O. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 1618.

Web links

• Maria Keller on the official website of the Austrian Athletics Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Austrian Best List 1921 ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (pdf), accessed on February 12, 2018