Marlene Schmitz-Portz

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Marlene Schmitz-Portz athletics
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday January 14, 1938
place of birth Euskirchen, Germany
size 173 cm
Weight 60 kg
Career
discipline high jump
Best performance 1.70 m (1964)
society ASV Cologne
status resigned
Medal table
German championships 6 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
DLV logo German championships
silver Düsseldorf 1957 high jump
gold Stuttgart 1959 high jump
gold Berlin 1960 high jump
gold 1960 High jump (hall)
gold Augsburg 1963 high jump
gold Berlin 1964 high jump
gold Duisburg 1965 high jump
last change: November 13, 2018

Marlene Schmitz-Portz (* 14. January 1938 in Euskirchen as Marlene Matthei ) is a former German track and field athlete , as in the late 1950s and early 1960s, high jumper was successful.

Career

The athlete who was 1.73 m tall and weighed 60 kg started for ASV Cologne .

On October 6, 1957, in Bad Kreuznach , she set a new German record with 1.67 m and improved Inge Kilian's record, which was exactly one year old, by one centimeter. The record lasted eight months before the German champion took it back with 1.68 m.

After Marlene Matthei became runner-up behind Inge Kilian in 1957, she then won six German championship titles: 1959, 1960 (1.67 m and 1.65 m in the hall), 1963 (1.64 m), 1964 and 1965 (1 , 67 m).

She took part in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome , where she came in ninth with a jump of 1.65 m (she should have jumped 1.71 m for a medal).

In 1963 she came third in the USA-Germany international match in Braunschweig with 1.60 m.

In 1964 she won the evening sports festival in Leverkusen with 1.62 m.

Her best performance is 1.70 m, skipped in 1964.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. world records | German records | The best of all time - high jump women (IAAF)
  2. ^ Women's high jump - Athletics; Rome 1960 Summer Olympics