Monika Warstat

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Monika Warstat medal table

Gliding

Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic
European championships
gold 1979 Women
Mastery of the socialist states
gold 1975 Women
silver 1977 Women
State championships
gold 1968 (Poland) Women
bronze 1968 (GDR) M / F
bronze 1983 (GDR) M / F

Monika Warstat (née Gribat) is a German glider pilot . She became the first female European champion in 1979 and was a member of the gliding commission and the presidium of the aero club of the German Democratic Republic .

Sports

Warstat started in Auerbach / Vogtl in 1958 . with gliding. In the following year she passed the B-test in Grunau Baby IIb and in 1962 the silver-C . Five years later she was the first woman to be appointed to the GDR national team. In 1968 she was third in the GDR open competition in Gera . In the same year she won the Polish Women's Championships in Lisie Katy and in 1970 the women's competition in Neustadt-Glewe .

After Warstat won gold and silver medals at the championships of socialist states in 1975 and 1977, she won the first FAI European Women's Championship in 1979 . In nine competition flights in Dunaújváros , Hungary , she didn't win a single day. In the final statement, however, she received 7629 points and had a wafer-thin six-point lead over Eda Laan from the Soviet Union . Third was Jindra Paluskova from Czechoslovakia with 7553 points. Warstat and Laan both flew the Jantar standard . Warstat was only able to participate in the following European championships thanks to submissions and foreign support. In Chérence and Saint-Hubert , it came fourth and ninth in 1981 and 1983.

With a return flight of 513 kilometers to its destination, Warstat met the conditions for the golden glider badge with three diamonds in August 1982 and at the same time set two GDR records. She achieved a GDR women's record in 1984 at the Polish Championships in Leszno . It flew a 501-kilometer triangle at a speed of 88 km / h. At a new edition of the GDR championships Irmgard Morgner and Warstat won the team classification. In the competition against the men, Morgner was second and Warstat third in the individual ranking.

Since for economic reasons there was no possibility to take part in the European gliding championships in 1987 and 1989 in the socialist brother countries, Warstat left the GDR national team at his own request in 1988.

Filmography

  • From cloud to cloud - women in the glider sky. The East - Discover Where You Live , episode 96 (30 min.), MDR.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dunaujvaros, Węgry 1979 - Mistrzostwa Europy kobiet. (Polish), accessed August 17, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Warstat, Monika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gribat, Monika (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German glider pilot and European champion
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century