Ursula Finger

Ursula Finger
nation	Saarland
birthday	July 5, 1929
place of birth	Ottweiler ,  German Empire
date of death	February / March 2015
Place of death	California ,  United States
Career
discipline	Sprint , long jump , pentathlon
Best performance	100 m: 12.4 s 200 m: 25.9 s Long jump: 5.60 m
society	ATSV Saarbrücken
Medal table
Saarland championships 14 × 8 × 3 ×
Saarland championships silver Saarbrücken 1948 Long jump bronze Saarbrücken 1948 Pentathlon gold Saarbrücken 1948 4 × 100 m gold Saarbrücken 1949 100 m gold Saarbrücken 1949 200 m silver Saarbrücken 1949 4 × 100 m silver Saarbrücken 1949 Pentathlon gold Saarbrücken 1949 Long jump gold Saarbrücken 1951 100 m gold Saarbrücken 1951 Long jump gold Saarbrücken 1952 100 m gold Saarbrücken 1952 200 m gold Saarbrücken 1952 Long jump silver Saarbrücken 1952 Pentathlon silver Saarbrücken 1953 100 m gold Saarbrücken 1953 4 × 100 m silver Saarbrücken 1953 Long jump gold Saarbrücken 1953 200 m bronze Saarbrücken 1954 100 m silver Saarbrücken 1954 200 m gold Saarbrücken 1954 4 × 100 m silver Saarbrücken 1954 Long jump gold Saarbrücken 1955 200 m gold Saarbrücken 1955 4 × 100 m bronze Saarbrücken 1955 Long jump

Ursula "Ursel" Finger (born July 5, 1929 in Ottweiler ; † February / March 2015 in California , United States ) was a German athlete who competed for the Saarland .

The athlete from ATSV Saarbrücken took in 1952 with the team of Saarland at the Olympic Games in part in Helsinki. In the long jump she could not qualify for the final with 5.27 meters. With the 4-by-100-meter relay in the cast Inge glass Hörster , Inge Eckel , Hilda Antes and Ursula finger she put in 49.0 seconds in fifth in her heat a new national record.

Two years later, Ursula Finger also competed for Saarland at the 1954 European Championships in Bern. With 5.24 meters she was eliminated as 18th of the preliminary fight. The season consisting of Inge Eckel , Helga Hoffmann , Trude Schaller and Ursula Finger was eliminated in 48.3 seconds.

At the Saarland Championships , she was able to win 14 national championship titles.

Top performances

• 100-meter run: 12.4 seconds in 1956
• 200-meter run: 25.9 seconds in 1955
• Long jump: 5.60 meters in 1952

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898-2005 . 2 volumes, Darmstadt 2005 published via Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft

Web links

• Ursula Finger in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )