Ulrike Klotz

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Ulrike Klotz (born November 15, 1970 in Cottbus ) is a former German gymnast . Your home club was the SC Dynamo Berlin .

Ulrike Klotz started gymnastics together with Dagmar Kersten at the school in Cottbus. When they were ten, both switched to the gymnastics boarding school in Berlin. In 1981 and 1983 Ulrike Klotz won the Spartakiad in floor exercise. In 1985 she won her only GDR championship title on the ground. At the 1985 World Championships in Montréal, Ulrike Klotz won two bronze medals. In the team standings she was behind the ranks from the Soviet Union and Romania with the team of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), in floor exercise she placed behind the two Soviet gymnasts Oksana Omeliantschik and Jelena Schuschunowa . To this day, Ulrike Klotz is the only German gymnast who has ever won a medal in the floor finals of the world championships. Two years later at the World Championships in Rotterdam in 1987 , she again received bronze in the team classification. She took fifth place on the balance beam and eighth in the all-around competition.

At the Olympic Games in 1988 Ulrike Klotz took third place with the GDR team and reached eleventh place in the individual ranking of the all-around competition. She reached the device finals on the balance beam and took eighth place. In the same year she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

literature

  • Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ " Patriotic Order of Merit in Bronze ". New Germany , 12./13. November 1988, p. 4

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personal data
SURNAME Klotz, Ulrike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH cottbus