Ulrike Bruns

March 25, 84 Leipzig: GDR Cross Championships in Athletics- In the 2 km run of the women in Bad Düben, the Potsdam ASK athlete Ulrike Bruns won in 6: 47.8 min.

Ulrike Bruns , b. Klapezynski (born November 17, 1953 in Cottbus , GDR ) is a former German athlete . She won the bronze medal in the 1500 meter run for the GDR under her maiden name at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal .

Career

Ulrike Bruns had her international breakthrough in 1974 at the European Championships in Rome , when she finished 6th with 4: 10.54 minutes in the 1,500 meter run. She was several times GDR champion in all distances between 800 and 10,000 meters on the track, in the hall and in cross country. After numerous national and international successes, she had to end her career because of a chipped cartilage in her knee. She started for SC Cottbus (trainer: Jürgen Bruns) and later for ASK Vorwärts Potsdam (trainer: Bernd Dießner ). With a height of 1.70 m, she had a competition weight of 58 kg.

In 1984 and 1986 she was awarded the Silver Patriotic Order of Merit .

More Achievements

• 1974: Sixth in the 1500 m run at the European Championships in Rome
• 1975: World record in the 1000 m run in 2: 32.0 min ( August 18, 1975 in West Berlin )
• 1976: First German under 4 minutes in the 1500 m run (3: 59.9 min, July 14, 1979 in Potsdam )
• 1976: World record with the 4 × 800 m relay in 7: 54.2 min ( August 6, 1976 in Karl-Marx-Stadt )
• 1976: Bronze medal in the 1500 m run at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal
• 1978: European indoor champion in the 800 m run
• 1978: Indoor world record in the 800 m run in 2: 00.6 min ( February 26, 1978 in Senftenberg )
• 1978: Fifth in the 800 m run and 1500 m run at the European Championships in Prague
• 1980: Fifth in the Olympics in the 1500 m run in Moscow
• 1981: Third World Cup 1500 m run in Rome
• 1982: Fifth in the 1500 m run at the European Championships in Athens
• 1985: German record over 1 mile in 4: 21.59 min
• 1986: Third in the 10,000 m run at the European Championships in Stuttgart
• 1987: Third in the 3000 m run at the World Championships in Rome
• 1987: First European Cup 3000 m run in Prague

Records and best times

distance	time
800 m	1: 57.07 min
1000 m	2: 31.95 min
1500 m	3: 59.90 min
1 mile (1,609.30 m)	4: 21.59 min
3000 m	8: 36.04 min
10,000 m	31: 19.61 min

On the all-time German best list, Ulrike Bruns still occupies third places over 3000 and 10,000 meters. Her best time over the mile, run in Zurich in 1985, has so far only been beaten by Konstanze Klosterhalfen in the hall.

Further life dates

In 1979 she married her trainer Jürgen Bruns (1942–2018) and had a daughter and a son. After her active sports career in 1988 she became a medical-technical assistant and was a lieutenant in the NVA . After the end of the GDR, she and her husband opened a sports shop in Potsdam in 1990 .

In 1991 Bruns founded a women's running group in Potsdam , which has been part of the Potsdam Running Club since 1997.

Web links

• Ulrike Bruns in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Ulrike Bruns - world class in running shoes. In: ulrikes-sportshop.de. 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ulrike Bruns - world class in running shoes. In: ulrikes-sportshop.de. Retrieved August 18, 2019 . 
2. ^ New Germany , 1./2. September 1984, p. 4
3. ↑ Neues Deutschland, October 15, 1986, p. 7
4. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Meyer: Running as the elixir of life . In: Potsdam Latest News, November 16, 2013, p. 10.
5. ↑ Klosterhalfen breaks the next record. In: Sport1.de . August 18, 2019, accessed August 18, 2019 .