Monika Pflug

Monika Pflug (born March 1, 1954 in Munich ) is a former German speed skater and five-time participant in the Winter Olympics.

At the Olympic Games in Sapporo in 1972, she surprisingly won the gold medal in speed skating over 1000 meters at the age of 17, making her the only West German speed skater to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games until 1990.

For this success and her subsequent achievements in Eskilstuna, she was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on March 22, 1972.

Immediately after the 1972 Olympics, she also won the gold medal in the sprint fourfight in Eskilstuna . In her long career - she took part in all the Olympic Games up to 1988 - she was almost consistently among the world's best over 1000 or 500 meters, but was unable to match the great successes of 1972 due to an injury. After her marriage to her first husband Franz Holzner, she started under the name Monika Holzner-Pflug for some time, but left it after her divorce. In September 1984 she married the speed skater Fritz Gawenus and was henceforth run under the name Monika Holzner-Gawenus or Monika Holzner-Pflug-Gawenus.

In 1972 she received the bronze Bravo Otto of the youth magazine Bravo in a readers' poll .

Web links

• Monika Pflug in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Statistics at speed skating news
• Monika Holzner-Gawenus in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Speed ​​skating: help from Franz . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 1981 ( online - Mar. 2, 1981 ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sports report from the Federal Government to the Bundestag - Printed matter 7/1040 -, page 57
2. ↑ Fritz Gawenus in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)