Sabine Günther

Sabine Günther

Sabine Rieger (right) with Silke Gladisch

nation

DDR Germany

birthday

6th November 1963 (age 56)

place of birth

Jena , GDR

size

170 cm

Weight

60 kg

Career

discipline

sprint

Best performance

11.19 s ( 100 m )
22.37 s ( 200 m )

society

SC Motor Jena

status

resigned

Medal table

European championships	3 ×	0 ×	1 ×
U19 European Championships	2 ×	0 ×	0 ×

European championships
gold	Athens 1982	4 × 100 m
bronze	Athens 1982	200 m
gold	Stuttgart 1986	4 × 100 m
gold	Split 1990	4 × 100 m
Junior European Championships
gold	Utrecht 1981	200 m
gold	Utrecht 1981	4 × 100 m

Sabine Günther , born Sabine Rieger (born November 6, 1963 in Jena ), is a German athlete who was one of the world's best sprinters in the 1980s, starting for the GDR . She was three times in a row European champion with the 4 x 100 meter relay of the GDR: 1982, 1986 and 1990. Until August 2012 she was co-owner of the world record in the 4 x 100 meter run: At the World Cup in Canberra on October 6, 1985 it ran together with Silke Gladisch , Marlies Göhr and Ingrid Auerswald for a time of 41.37 s.

Successes in detail:

1981, European Junior Championships : 1st place in the 200-meter run (22.91 s; wind: +2.2 m / s); 1st place in the 4 x 100 meter run (43.77 s; together with Silke Gladisch , Kathrin Böhme and Carola Beuster )
1982, European Championships : 1st place in the 4 x 100 meter run (42.19 s; together with Gesine Walther , Bärbel Wöckel , Marlies Göhr ); 3rd place in the 200 meter run (22.51 s)
1986, European Championships : 1st place in the 4 x 100 meter run (41.84 s; together with Silke Gladisch , Ingrid Auerswald and Marlies Göhr ); 7th place in the 200-meter run (22.98 s)
1990, European Championships : 1st place in the 4 x 100 meter run (41.68 s; together with Silke Möller , Katrin Krabbe and Kerstin Behrendt ); 7th place in the 200-meter run (22.51 s)
1992, Olympic Games : 5th place in the 4 x 100 meter run (43.12 s; together with Andrea Philipp , Silke-Beate Knoll and Andrea Thomas )

Sabine Günther started for SC Motor Jena . In her active time she was 1.70 m tall and weighed 60 kg. In 1986 she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

Personal bests

100 m : 11.19 s, September 22, 1985, Berlin
200 m: 22.37 s, June 26, 1982, Cottbus

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