Mary Wagner

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Marianne "Mary" Wagner (born October 12, 1961 in Augsburg ) is a former German athlete who was particularly successful in the hurdles in the 1980s .

Athletic career

Mary Wagner played her entire sporting career for TSV Göggingen Augsburg from the Augsburg district of the same name and was trained by Max Steger, whose own daughter Claudia Steger was also a successful runner. Her greatest successes are the victory at the German Championships in 1983 over 400 meter hurdles and the runner-up in the previous year . In addition, she had also achieved second place in the 400-meter run at the German Indoor Championships in 1981 . She set her personal best of 55.19 s on May 21, 1983 in Fürth and was up to five hundredths of a second on the German record of Silvia Hollmann .

In August 1983 Wagner took part in the first World Athletics Championships in Helsinki and was considered a hopeful title contender due to her previous successes. In the run-up to the 400-meter hurdles, however, she tore her Achilles tendon and was no longer able to take part in the competition. With a view to the upcoming 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles , Wagner started training again just a few months later, but this overloaded her Achilles tendon and had to end her career.

Private life

Wagner is with the former since 1987 NBA - Basketball player Detlef Schrempf married and has with him two sons. In the fall of 1984 she followed her future husband to Seattle in the USA . The couple met on an episode of the ZDF's current sports studio .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian Athletics Association: The legendary coach Max Steger turns 90 on Sunday - accessed on June 27, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b c Augsburger Allgemeine : When the hit series broke - Retrieved June 27, 2011.
  3. ^ Klaus Amrhein: Biographical Handbook on the History of German Athletics 1898-2005. 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society. P. 1256f
  4. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger: The dream couples of the sport world - Retrieved on June 27, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Mary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagner, Marianne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg