Petra Uhlig

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Petra Uhlig (* 22. July 1954 in Penig as Petra Kahnt ) is a former German handball player who won two Olympic medals and three times was world champion. She is the record national player of the DHV of the GDR .

Life

Petra Kahnt played at SC Leipzig . She won the Spartakiade three times, and coach Peter Kretzschmar took her over to the first team at SC Leipzig. At the age of 17 she played in the GDR national team and was involved in winning the world championship in 1971. After finishing ninth at the 1973 World Cup, she won her second world title in 1975.

After her marriage, Petra Uhlig played in all five games at the Olympic premiere of women's handball at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. The team won three games, played a low-goal draw with 7: 7 against the Hungarians and lost to the Soviet team. Behind the Soviet Union, the players from the GDR won the silver medal because they had the better goal difference than the Hungarians. For this success she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. After winning the world championship in 1978, Petra Uhlig also took part in all games at the second Olympic handball tournament in Moscow in 1980. Like four years before, the team won three games, drew once against Yugoslavia and lost to the Soviet Union. Since the Yugoslav women had the better goal difference, the GDR team received the bronze medal this time. The 1982 World Cup was Petra Uhlig's last major tournament, with the GDR team taking fourth place.

In total, Petra Uhlig played in 284 international matches for the GDR, in which the cyclist scored 487 goals. This made her the record German national player for many years. It was later overtaken by Michaela Erler and Grit Jurack .

Petra Uhlig won seven GDR championship titles with SC Leipzig. In 1974 she won the European Cup . At the end of her sporting career, she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold in 1984. In the same year she was voted handball woman of the year .

Her daughter Alexandra also played handball.

literature

  • Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).
  2. ↑ Handball 1988, special supplement to the DHV association organ handball, summer 1988, p. 71. - Deviating from this, Laaß / Müller only lists 276 international matches
  3. ↑ German Handball Federation , Media Information 02/03/2007 ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ New Germany , 1./2. September 1984, p. 4
  5. ↑ http://ddr-handball.de/, accessed on February 5, 2018
  6. ↑ stz-online.de: THC wants to make history ( Memento from May 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Uhlig, Petra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kahnt, Petra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German handball player
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Penig