Roswitha Beier

Roswitha Beier (born December 22, 1956 in Riesa , after she married Roswitha Sonntag ) is a former swimming athlete from the GDR who won two Olympic silver medals in 1972.

Life

Like her future competitor Rosemarie Kother, Roswitha Beier started at SG Dynamo Luckenwalde , both later switched to SC Dynamo Berlin . At the age of eleven, Roswitha Beier won the Spartakiade on the 200-meter freestyle course. After switching to the butterfly route, she moved up to the world class within a very short time. At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, she improved the GDR record over 100 meters butterfly to 1: 03.61 minutes and won the silver medal behind Mayumi Aoki from Japan . With the layer relay consisting of Christine Herbst , Renate Vogel , Roswitha Beier and Kornelia Ender , she won her second silver medal, this time behind the Americans. At the GDR championship in 1973, Beier won the short butterfly route ahead of Rosemarie Kother, over 200 meters she lost to her club colleague. At the swimming world championships in 1973 Ender and Kother competed over 100 meters. Beier started just over 200 meters butterfly and won the silver medal behind Rosemarie Kother. After Roswitha Beier could not qualify for the European Championships in 1974, she ended her career.

Later she was employed as a China Studies graduate at Deutsche Außenhandelsbank AG in Berlin.

Awards

• 1972: Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze

literature

• Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR. Your successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 , p. 29f.

Web links

• Roswitha Beier in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Swimming world championships
• GDR championships in butterfly swimming