Rita Gildemeister

Rita Gildemeister becomes GDR high jump champion in 1965

Rita Gildemeister (born March 6, 1947 in Klueß ) is a former athlete from the German Democratic Republic (GDR). In 1972 and 1973 she was second at the European Indoor Championships in high jump .

From 1963 to 1973, Rita Gildemeister was among the six best jumpers at the GDR championships every year. But she only won the title in 1965, in the open air she took second and third place twice, and in the hall she came second four times.

In 1964 the European Junior Games took place, the forerunner of the later European Junior Championships , with Rita Gildemeister winning the title with 1.67 m. In 1967 she started at the Indoor European Games in Prague and finished fourth with 1.70 m. At the European Indoor Championships in Grenoble in 1972, Rita Schmidt won with 1.90 m, Rita Gildemeister jumped 1.84 m and came second at the same height to third-placed Bulgarian Jordanka Blagoewa . Although only fourth in the GDR championships in 1972, Gildemeister was allowed to go to the Olympic Games in Munich together with Rita Schmidt and Rosemarie Witschas . There, 23 jumpers mastered the qualification height of 1.76 m, including all three GDR jumpers. Rita Gildemeister took 12th place in the final with 1.82 m, Schmidt was fifth, Witschas seventh. At the European Indoor Championships in Rotterdam in 1973, Gildemeister won silver again, with 1.86 m, however, it was well behind Blagoewa with 1.92 m.

When Rita Gildemeister first competed in GDR championships in 1963, Doris Walther's GDR record was 1.71 m; when she stopped after the 1974 indoor season, Rita Schmidt was the record holder with 1.90 m. In September 1973 Rita Gildemeister achieved the highest jump of her career with 1.87 m.

Rita Gildemeister started for the SC Leipzig , with a height of 1.81 m, her competition weight was 63 kg.

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
• Fritz Steinmetz and Manfred Grieser : German records. Development from 1898 to 1991. Kassel 1992