Renate Stecher

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Renate Stecher (1973)

Renate Stecher , née Renate Meißner (born May 12, 1950 in Süptitz ), is a former athlete . In 1972 she was Olympic champion in the 100-meter run and 200-meter run and in 1976 in the 4-by-400-meter relay .

Sports career

Renate Stecher began active sports at Chemie Torgau. Then she went to Jena and started for SC Motor Jena . She was trained by Horst-Dieter Hille. In her active days, she was 1.70 m tall and weighed 70 kg.

She was one of the world's best sprinters in the 1970s . She became a three-time Olympic champion and five-time European champion. She was the first woman to run the 100 meters in under 11 seconds (hand-stopped); she made the distance in Ostrava on June 7, 1973 in 10.9 s. From 1970 to 1976 she ran a total of 17 world records.

In 2011 Renate Stecher was inducted into the Hall of Fame of German Sports.

Renate Stecher 2017 as a guest at the Hall of Fame exhibition in Leipzig

successes

Other successes

  • European indoor champion: 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1974
  • European Cup winner
    • 100 meters: 1973 and 1975
    • 200 meters: 1970, 1973 and 1975
    • Season: 1973 and 1975
  • Multiple GDR champion, including 1970, 1971 and 1973 to 1975 over 100 meters and 1970, 1971, 1973 and 1974 over 200 meters

Private

Renate Stecher has been married to the hurdler Gerd Stecher since 1970. The couple has three daughters (born in 1977, 1979, 1986), some of whom are also very talented athletes; Daughter Anja (* 1979) was three-time Thuringian national champion in 1996 . After finishing her career, Renate Stecher studied sports science in Jena and then worked as a sports teacher in the university. This position was closed after the fall of the 1990s. Renate Stecher then worked as an employee in the student union and for the anti-doping commission of the DLV .

Top performances

  • 100 meters: 11.07 s in 1972 in Munich and 1973 in Dresden
  • 200 meters: 22.40 s in 1972 in Munich and 22.1 s in 1973 in Dresden

Awards

  • 1970 - Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
  • 1971 and 1974 - Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver
  • 1972 and 1976 - Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical Handbook on the History of German Athletics 1898–2005 , 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society
  • Klaus Gallinat, Olaf W. Reimann:  Stecher, Renate . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Renate Stecher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerald Fritsche: Sprinter with a special history . In: Free Press . May 12, 2020, p. 15 .
  2. ↑ Records women 100 m , accessed on July 12, 2017
  3. ↑ Records women 200 m , accessed on July 12, 2017
  4. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold. In: New Germany . ZEFYS newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (free registration required).
personal data
SURNAME Engraver, Renate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meissner, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and Olympic champion
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Dreiheide -Süptitz