Siegrun Siegl

Siegrun Siegl (born October 29, 1954 in Apolda as Tohn ) is a former German athlete who - starting for the GDR - became Olympic champion in the pentathlon in 1976 .

At the European Championships in 1974 she was fourth in the pentathlon (4584 points). In May 1976 she set a world record in the long jump with 6.99 meters . At the Olympic Games in Montreal she finished fourth in the long jump, but in the pentathlon she won the gold medal. With 4745 points, she achieved the same final result as her teammate Christine Laser , but won with the number of better individual placements in accordance with IAAF regulations. Your individual performances in this competition: 13.31 s - 12.92 m - 1.74 m - 6.49 m - 23.09 s.

After an injury break, Siegl switched entirely from pentathlon to long jump. She became European indoor champion in 1979 (6.70 m) and fifth at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow .

In 1975 she was GDR champion in the pentathlon, 1979 with the 4 x 100 meter relay and 1980 in the long jump.

Siegrun Siegl started for the SC Turbine Erfurt and trained with Siegfried Meißner . During her competition time she was 1.75 m tall and weighed 58 kg. In 1976 she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver for her Olympic victory in Montreal .

After her sports career, she studied sports science in Leipzig and became a sports teacher at a vocational school in Erfurt . After the end of the GDR, she opened a photo shop in Erfurt.

literature

Klaus Amrhein: Biographical Handbook on the History of German Athletics 1898–2005 ., 2 volumes, Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.
Olaf W. Reimann: Siegl, Sigrun . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Siegrun Siegl in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 183
↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In: New Germany . ZEFYS newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (free registration required).

personal data
SURNAME	Siegl, Siegrun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Thon, Siegrun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German athlete and Olympic champion
DATE OF BIRTH	October 29, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	Apolda , GDR

[1] Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 183

[2] About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In: New Germany . ZEFYS newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (free registration required).