Sabine Braun

Sabine Braun
nation	Germany
birthday	19th June 1965 (age 55)
place of birth	Essen , Germany
size	174 cm
Weight	65 kg
Career
discipline	Heptathlon
Best performance	6985 points
status	resigned
End of career	2002
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World championships 2 × 1 × 0 × European championships 2 × 1 × 0 × Indoor world championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze Barcelona 1992 Heptathlon  World championships gold Tokyo 1991 Heptathlon silver Stuttgart 1993 Heptathlon gold Athens 1997 Heptathlon European championships gold Split 1990 Heptathlon gold Helsinki 1994 Heptathlon silver Munich 2002 Heptathlon  Indoor world championships gold Paris 1997 Pentathlon
last change: December 14, 2018

Sabine Braun (born June 19, 1965 in Essen ) is a former German athlete who was twice world and European champion in the heptathlon as well as once Olympic third.

Career

Her international sporting career, which spanned two decades, began in August 1983 with the Junior European Championships , which she finished with a second place. In 1984 she took part in the Olympic Games in Los Angeles and was sixth; at the 1988 Games in Seoul, she came in 14th place. In 1990 she won gold at the European Athletics Championships in Split , and in 1991 at the World Championships in Tokyo .

At the Barcelona Olympics she reached the bronze medal behind Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) and 1993 for doping locked Irina Belova (RUS). She reached 6649 points (individual results: 13.25 s - 1.94 m - 14.23 m - 24.27 s - 6.02 m - 51.12 m - 2: 14.35 min). Earlier this year, at the Götzis all- around meeting , which she won four times, she achieved her personal best with 6985 points (individual results: 13.11 s - 1.93 m - 14.84 m - 23.65 s - 6.63 m - 51.62 m - 2: 12.67 min), which is still the German record today.

In 1993 Braun won silver at the World Championships in Stuttgart , and in 1994 she defended her title at the European Championships in Helsinki . At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, she was seventh. In 1997 she won two world titles: at the World Indoor Championships in Paris in the pentathlon and at the World Championships in Athens in the heptathlon. In Athens she also started in the long jump , but failed there in the qualification. A fourth place at the 1999 World Championships in Seville, where she missed bronze by three points, and a fifth place at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, the crowning glory of her career was winning the silver medal at the 2002 European Championships in Munich.

Sabine Braun is 1.74 m tall and weighed 65 kg during her active time. She was the first German athlete to take part in five Olympic Games. She was trained by Gertrud Schäfer for 13 years until 1999 . First she started for the LAV Düsseldorf , 1987 for the LG Bayer Leverkusen and then for the TV Wattenscheid 01 athletics , for which the trained industrial clerk works as a young trainer today. Sabine Braun's partner is the former javelin thrower Beate Peters , who also looked after her as a trainer towards the end of her career.

Awards

• In 2002 Sabine Braun was awarded the Rudolf Harbig Memorial Prize.

literature

• zurgams (Ed.): Time leaps. 35 years of all-around meeting Götzis. Bucher Verlag, Hohenems 2009, ISBN 978-3-902679-23-9

Web links

• Sabine Braun in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Sabine Braun in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait on Leichtathletik.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus Blume: Heptathlon trainer Schäfer: "There has always been tension" , Die Welt April 29, 1999
2. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Sabine Braun for a more attractive competition offer . April 12, 2008
3. ↑ Die Welt : Old will to win with new coaches . July 20, 1999