Sigrid Kirchmann

Sigrid Kirchmann

nation

Austria

birthday

29th March 1966 (age 54)

place of birth

Bad Ischl , Austria

size

181 cm

Weight

64 kg

job

AHS teacher

Career

discipline

Heptathlon , high jump

Best performance

Heptathlon : 5944 points.
High jump : 1.97 m

society

Union Ebensee

Medal table

World championships	0 ×	0 ×	1 ×
State Championships	12 ×	0 ×	0 ×

World championships
bronze	Stuttgart 1993	high jump
Austrian championships
gold	1982 , 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994	high jump
gold	1986 , 1994	Heptathlon

last change: March 26, 2018

Sigrid Kirchmann (born March 29, 1966 Bad Ischl ; married Sigrid Ortner-Kirchmann ) is a former Austrian high jumper , heptathlete and Olympian (1992).

Career

Kirchmann grew up in Ebensee . In 1982 the 16-year-old won the national championship for the first time. In 1982 at the Gymnasiade in Lille she was second in the high jump with 1.82 m.

Between 1982 and 1994 she was ten times Austrian national champion in high jump and also won two titles in heptathlon .

In 1990 she was fourth at the European Championships. In August 1992 she reached the final of the Olympic Games in Barcelona and finished fifth with 1.94 m behind the German Heike Henkel (2.02 m).
She was trained at Union Ebensee by Günther Lemmerer , who also looked after Hermann Maier and Karin Kronberger .

She celebrated the greatest success of her career on August 21, 1993 when she jumped 1.97 m and with third place in Stuttgart won the first Austrian medal at world championships in athletics . Kirchmann has held the Austrian high jump record since 1993 with 1.97 m . At the IAAF World Indoor Championships in 1995 she was eighth on March 11 in Barcelona .

For the 1996 Olympic Games she was able to qualify again. When jumping in in Atlanta , however, she tore an Achilles tendon and had to forego a start.
At the European Championships in Budapest in 1998 she made her comeback and finished fourth.

Her Austrian record with 5944 points in the heptathlon from 5./6. October 1985 could not be improved until 2012 by Ivona Dadic with 5959 points at the all-around meeting in Götzis .

At the University of Salzburg spondierte Sigrid Kirchmann, 1989, 1995, she was as Dr. phil. PhD .

Sigrid Ortner-Kirchmann now lives with her husband Jürgen Ortner and their two daughters in Schlierbach , where she works as an AHS teacher.

Web links

Sigrid Kirchmann in the database of World Athletics (English)
Sigrid Kirchmann in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

↑ Heptathlon in Götzis with a new record for Austria (May 27, 2012)
↑ -: Pharmacological possibilities and methods of shifting human performance limits in sport . Thesis. University of Salzburg, Salzburg 1989, OBV .
^ -: Top sport analysis of the federal states of Upper Austria and Salzburg. An empirical study of top-class sport in the federal states of Upper Austria and Salzburg . Dissertation. University of Salzburg, Salzburg 1995, OBV .
↑ In the beginning there was the cider pear battle (May 28, 2012)

personal data
SURNAME	Kirchmann, Sigrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian high jumper
DATE OF BIRTH	March 29, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bad Ischl

[1] Heptathlon in Götzis with a new record for Austria (May 27, 2012)

[2] -: Pharmacological possibilities and methods of shifting human performance limits in sport . Thesis. University of Salzburg, Salzburg 1989, OBV .

[3] -: Top sport analysis of the federal states of Upper Austria and Salzburg. An empirical study of top-class sport in the federal states of Upper Austria and Salzburg . Dissertation. University of Salzburg, Salzburg 1995, OBV .

[4] In the beginning there was the cider pear battle (May 28, 2012)