Marlene Schmitz-Portz
Marlene Schmitz-Portz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
nation | Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | January 14, 1938 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Euskirchen, Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 173 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 60 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | high jump | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Best performance | 1.70 m (1964) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
society | ASV Cologne | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
- Marlene Schmitz-Portz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Leichtathletik-dgld.de
- US girls did not give anything away Nevertheless clear victory of the German athletes - 71:45 ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Jutta Heine only 12.0 - European champion is still not in swing ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Sport-Komplett.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ world records | German records | The best of all time - high jump women (IAAF)
- ^ Women's high jump - Athletics; Rome 1960 Summer Olympics
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schmitz-Portz, Marlene |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Matthei (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1938 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Euskirchen |