Silvia Sperber-Seiderer

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Silvia Sperber-Seiderer (* February 9, 1965 in Erpfting , Bavaria as Silvia Sperber ) is a former German sports shooter and Olympic champion in 1988.

Career

The shooter from the Königsschützen Penzing won the European Junior Championship in 1981 with the small-bore rifle in three-position combat. In the following year she won the European Junior Championships with the German team with the air rifle, with the small bore rifle she took second place in the team ranking and third place in the individual ranking. In 1983 she took part in the world championship in the adult class, with the air rifle she took third place in the individual ranking and together with Ulrike Holmer and Sigrid Lang won the world championship title with the team. At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles she reached eleventh place with the air rifle and then withdrew from international competitive sport out of disappointment.

In 1987 Silvia Sperber returned and in 1988 achieved a world record with the air rifle at the pre-Olympic World Cup in Moscow with 399 rings. At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988, Silvia Sperber was in seventh place after qualifying with the air rifle, but shot the best series in the finals with 104.5 rings. This moved her to second place behind the Belarusian Iryna Schylawa . Three days later, Silvia Sperber entered the final of the three-position fight with the small-bore rifle with a four-ring lead, the Bulgarian world record holder Wessela Letschewa , sixth in the qualification, showed by far the best performance in the final, but Silvia Sperber still retained two rings in the end and won the gold medal before Letschewa.

In 1989, Silvia Sperber and the team won the silver medal at the European championship with the small-bore rifle, and in 1991 she finished third. At her third Olympic participation in Barcelona in 1992 , the administrative clerk Sperber with the air rifle just barely missed the final with the air rifle in ninth place. Now married, she won the European team championship with Kirsten Obel and Petra Horneber in 1995 as Silvia Sperber-Seiderer with the small-bore rifle .

Already in 1984 she was awarded the silver bay leaf under the name Sperber.

literature

  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Los Angeles 1984. The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany. Frankfurt am Main 1984
  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Seoul 1988. The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany. Frankfurt am Main 1988
  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Barcelona 92. The German Olympic team. Frankfurt am Main 1992

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World Championships
  2. ↑ European Championships
  3. ↑ "Birthdays", Sport-Bild from February 3, 1993, p. 48
  4. ↑ all European champions 1994-1999
  5. ↑ Who is Who, Article Silvia Sperber
personal data
SURNAME Sparrowhawk Seiderer, Silvia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sparrowhawk, Silvia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German marksman and Olympic champion in 1988
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Erpfting , Bavaria , Federal Republic of Germany