Petra Hinze (cross-country skier)

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Petra Hinze (married Bartels) Cross-country skiing
nation Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic
birthday April 20, 1955
place of birth Aue,  GDR
Career
job Administrative clerk
discipline Cross-country skiing
society SC tractor Oberwiesenthal
Trainer Heinz Nestler, Christine Nestler, Axel Mensky
National squad since 1972
status resigned
End of career 1975
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
DDRM medals 5 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
silver 1974 Falun Season
GDR championshipsTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
silver 1973 5 kilometers
gold 1973 Season
gold 1974 5 kilometers
gold 1974 10 kilometer
silver 1974 Season
gold 1975 5 kilometers
gold 1975 Season
last change: January 19, 2014

Petra Hinze (married Bartels) (born April 20, 1955 in Aue ) is a former German cross-country skier who started for the GDR national team from 1972 to 1975. Her greatest success is winning the World Cup silver medal with the 1974 relay in Falun .

Junior area

Petra Hinze began cross-country skiing at BSG Motor Bockau, where she gained her first experience under coach Axel Mensky. Hinze first drew attention to herself as district champion in the youth field in the 1969/70 winter sports season. Furthermore, she won that season in January 1970 at the prestigious Mühlleiten women's ski race in the youth area, the races over 5 and 7 kilometers. In the following season 70/71 Hinze started for the junior national team of the GDR. In view of her achievements, she was nominated for the IV. Junior European Championships , which took place from February 5 to 7, 1971 in Nesselwang , Bavaria , in the ten-man GDR squad. The GDR selection there included, among others, the later Olympic champion Barbara Petzold , who, along with Margitta Rösch, belonged to the Oberwiesenthal training group under the coaches Christine and Heinz Nestler . At the EM itself, where the Klingenthal runner Marita Dotter Weich won silver over 5 km, Hinze took 14th place over the 5 km. In the 3x5 km relay, which also took silver in the line-up of Petzold / Rösch / Dotter Weich, the 15-year-old Hinze was not considered. The highlights of the 1971/72 Olympic season were the Mühlleitener women’s ski race, the GDR senior championships, the GDR youth championships and the fifth European junior championships in Tarvisio , Italy . But both the women's ski race and the senior championships literally fell through. At the youth championships, which took place in front of a home crowd in Oberwiesenthal, Hinze won gold over the 5 km and with the relay. Hinze started in the Junior European Championship with a 4th place over a distance of 5 kilometers. As in the previous year, her teammate Marita Dotter Weich took silver over this distance. Because of this performance, Hinze was now used in the relay. As in the previous year, this won silver, this time in the line-up of Krause / Dotter Weich / Hinze. Barbara Petzold was not considered in the season.

Senior area

After the Olympic season, there was a major change in personnel due to the rather disappointing performance of cross-country women at the Olympic Games in Sapporo . The trio Anni Unger , Renate Fischer and Gabriele Haupt , which had dominated for years and became vice world champion in the relay in 1970 , was retired from the national team in November 1972. In return, talents like Veronika Schmidt , Sigrun Krause , Barbara Petzold, Marita Dotter Weich, Margitta Rösch and 17-year-old Petra Hinze have moved up into the team. The average age was 17.5 years. And shortly after the turn of the year, Petra Hinze caused the first surprise on January 5, 1973 at the traditional Mühlleiten women's ski race. She won the 10-kilometer route with a 39-second lead over the triple Olympic champion from Sapporo, Galina Kulakowa , who had only arrived at the venue a few hours earlier. It was the first victory for a GDR runner over this distance since 1962. Over the 5 km route that was run the following day, Hinze took 4th place, just three seconds behind bronze. In the relay decision, which was held for the first time with 4 runners in the line-up of Birgit Hunger / Margitta Rösch / Petra Hinze / Marita Dotter Weich, the GDR relay came in fourth. The 25th GDR championships , which took place in Schmiedefeld at the beginning of February 1973 , started with a disappointment for Hinze. Over 10 kilometers she crossed the finish line, a good two minutes behind. Over half the distance of 5 kilometers things went better, behind double champion Sigrun Krause Hinze won her first championship medal with silver. The first championship title was ultimately not long in coming. For Anni Unger , who had switched from SC Dynamo Klingenthal to SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal , trainer Heinz Nestler had built a powerful team with Margitta Rösch, Barbara Petzold and Petra Hinze. And this season promptly won gold, Petra Hinze celebrated her first GDR championship title. At the end of February 73, Hinze started the ski games in Falun at the season highlight . A year before the world championships taking place there, the world's elite came to extensively test the newly built facilities. At the same time, the Falun ski games served as the first assessment of the situation for the newly formed, very young women's national team in the international cross-country skiing scene. After rather mixed individual placements, Hinze brought the relay to fourth place behind the relay from the Soviet Union, Finland and Norway, but 4 seconds before the loudly celebrated local relay from Sweden.

At the start of the 1973/74 World Championship season, Hinze started again in the women's ski race in Mühlleiten. After 15th place over 10 kilometers and only 17th place over 5 kilometers, she took a respectable 4th place with the relay as in the previous year. Despite this somewhat sobering start to the season, Hinzes should be 1974's most successful year. The 26th GDR Ski Championships , which took place in Klingenthal from the end of January to the beginning of February, saw Petra Hinze in top form. She was able to secure both individual titles over 5 and 10 kilometers, in the relay she won silver. So the nomination for the Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun, Sweden, was hardly surprising. In addition to Hinze, Veronika Schmidt, Barbara Petzold, Sigrun Krause and Monika Debertshäuser also belonged to the women's team.

The world championships did not get off to a good start for Hinze at first. While her teammate Barbara Petzold was able to achieve the best single placement of a GDR runner at world championships with place 4 over 5 kilometers and Veronika Schmidt also achieved a respectable result with place 7, it was only enough for Hinze to place 30. She was therefore not unexpected for the run over 10 kilometers was not nominated, Monika Debertshäuser was used in her place. In this run decision, Barbara Petzold won the silver medal. With 5th place for Veronika Schmidt and 7th place for Sigrun Krause, the GDR team brought 3 women into the top ten almost sensationally. Nevertheless, the association coaches decided on Petra Hinze for the relay decision. Starting in second position, sent by Sigrun Krause as third placed, she was able to hold the position and handed over to Barbara Petzold as third, but only 5 seconds behind the leading Soviet relay. This moved up to second place and handed it over to Veronika Schmidt, who finished just 11 seconds behind Galina Kulakowa and thus won silver for the GDR relay. For Petra Hinze, this silver medal also meant the greatest success of her career. After this season highlight, Hinze won with the GDR relay at the traditional XXIX. Czech Marusarzówna Memorial in the Polish winter sports center Zakopane.

The first highlight of the 1974/75 season was again the Mühlleitener women's ski race, which took place in mid-January 1975, where Hinze took 5th place over 10 kilometers, while it only reached 16th place over the 5 kilometers. In the relay decision, however, Hinze was able to help ensure that the GDR relay, which appeared in the World Cup line-up, took second place behind the strong Finns. The GDR ski championships , which took place in front of a home crowd in Oberwiesenthal at the beginning of February 1975, saw Petra Hinze over the 10 kilometer route, who finished 14th after surviving the flu. Over 5 kilometers, however, she was able to defend the championship title somewhat surprisingly, given her last performances. And Hinze was also able to receive the gold medal in the relay. However, only after a decision on the green table, as the actual winning relay from Zella-Mehlis was disqualified. As a result, Hinze took part in well-filled competitions in Falun and Lahti, but always came in the lower ranks. It was only at the Holmenkollen Games in early March that she put another exclamation mark. Petra Hinze was third over the 5 kilometer route. At the Czech Marusarzówna Memorial in Zakopane she entered the list of winners over 10 km. In the season she was able to achieve 2nd place together with Christel Meinel and Maron Büchner. Appearances in the Tatra Cup and in Murmansk rounded off the season.

For the following season, Petra Hinze was no longer considered in the national team, the 1976 Winter Olympics took place without her. Veronika Schmidt and Monika Debertshäuser had overtaken her in terms of performance and won relay bronze with Sigrun Krause and Barbara Petzold at the Olympics.

Private

Petra Bartels, now married, later worked for the municipal administration in Bockau. In the course of regional reforms, she is now working as an administrative clerk at the municipality of Zschorlau in the area of ​​construction management.

literature

  • Auer Employment Initiative e. V A small chronicle of great athletes: Erzgebirge we are proud of; Olympic champions, world champions, cup winners, GDR and German champions, Volume II, Rockstroh, 2004, p. 76
  • Manfred Seifert, Roland Singer, Hans-Jürgen Zeume: Great love for skiing . Sports publishing house, Berlin 1979

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland (ND) from January 7, 1973 p. 8
  2. ↑ Small Chronicle of Large Athletes, Volume II, p. 76
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of February 1, 1971 p. 6
  4. ^ ND of February 6, 1971 p. 8
  5. ↑ ND of February 8, 1971 p. 6
  6. ↑ ND of January 12, 1972 p. 5
  7. ↑ ND of January 31, 1972 p. 7
  8. ^ ND of February 27, 1972 p. 7
  9. ↑ Neue Zeit from March 1, p. 6
  10. ↑ ND of November 22, 1972 p. 5
  11. ↑ ND of January 6, 1973 p. 5
  12. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of January 7, p. 4
  13. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of January 8, p. 6
  14. ^ ND of February 3, 1973 p. 8
  15. ^ ND of February 4, 1973 p. 8
  16. ^ ND of February 5, 1973 p. 7
  17. ^ ND of February 26, 1973 p. 7
  18. ↑ ND of January 14, 1973 p. 7
  19. ^ ND of February 4, 1974 p. 7
  20. ^ ND of February 19, 1974 p. 5
  21. ↑ ND of February 21, 1974 p. 5
  22. ↑ ND of March 11, 1974 p. 4
  23. ^ ND of January 20, 1975 p. 7
  24. ^ ND of February 10, 1975 p. 8
  25. ^ ND of March 7, 1974 p. 5
  26. ^ ND of March 15, 1975 p. 5
  27. ^ ND of January 18, 1989 p. 7
personal data
SURNAME Hinze, Petra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bartels, Petra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cross-country skier
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Aue