Ramona Neubert

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Ramona Neubert (née Göhler , married Raulf ; born July 26, 1958 in Pirna ) is a former German athlete and Olympic participant who was one of the world's best pentathletes and later heptathletes in the 1970s and 1980s - starting for the GDR .

Life

She was GDR indoor champion in 1978 and reached sixth place in the pentathlon at the European championships (4380 points). In Moscow, Neubert came fourth at the 1980 Olympic Games (4698 points). The following year she was again GDR champion in the hall. In the outdoor season, she won the national title in the heptathlon and at the European Cup, she won both in the individual competition and with the team. In 1982 she won the gold medal at the European Championships in Athens (6622 points; individual performances: 13.61 s - 15.02 m - 1.83 m - 23.40 s - 6.63 m - 42.48 m - 2:11, 06 min).

Her greatest success is the victory at the 1983 World Championships in Helsinki (6714 points; individual performances: 13.29 s - 1.80 m - 15.38 m - 23.27 s - 6.67 m - 45.12 m - 2: 11.34 min). In addition, she won the European Cup again this year both individually and with the team.

The first world record was set by her on May 24, 1981 in Halle during a qualifying competition in the GDR with a score of 6670 points. On June 28, 1981, she presented the second world record of the from with 6788 points Pentathlon emerged Seven struggle on women within a country struggle in Kiev. On June 20, 1982, she improved it to 6845 points. A year later, on June 19, 1983, she raised the mark in Moscow within the all-round international match, and improved it to 6935. Sabine Paetz took this world record from her on May 6, 1984 with 6945 points.

Ramona Neubert was also a very good long jumper . Her personal best was 6.90 m and in 1982 she became East German champion in the long jump.

In 1984 she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver for her sporting success .

She started for the SC Einheit Dresden and trained with Volker Schubert, Heinz Hübner and Bernd Großmann. In her active days she was 1.75 m tall and weighed 65 kg. In the documents on state doping in the GDR that became public after the fall of the Wall , the name of Neubert was found among the doped athletes.

In 1978 she married the athlete Christian Neubert . After the second wedding in 1986, she took the name Raulf. The trained nursery teacher studied from 1983 to 1988 at the DHFK Leipzig , Dresden branch. At the end of her athletic career, she became a sports teacher and later sports coordinator at the Dresden vocational schools.

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Germany , 1./2. September 1984, p. 4
  2. ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 183
  3. ↑ Holger Tannert, Stefanie Kowal: Ramona Raulf born. Neubert , Dresdner SC 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Neubert, Ramona
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Göhler, Ramona (maiden name); Raulf, Ramona
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and Olympic participant
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Pirna