Ursula Hook
Ursula Hook (born August 17, 1957 in Hanau ) is a former German athlete who specialized in the 800-meter run .
She won the silver medal at the Junior European Championships in 1975 with the German 4 x 400 meter relay . On July 16, 1977 in Stuttgart, Hook set her personal best in 1: 59.40 minutes on the 800 meter distance. Shortly afterwards she became German champion in Hamburg.
In 1978 she was canceled due to illness. On January 21, 1979, however, Hook in Dortmund was the first woman in the hall to stay under two minutes and set a new world record in 1: 59.9 minutes. In the open-air season she was German champion for the second time and at the European Cup in Turin she came in seventh. Due to the doping problem with the competition at the time, she ended her competitive sports career early.
Ursula Hook started for the LAZ Main-Kinzig Hanau (until 1976), the LG Marburg-Kirchhain (1977) and OSC Thier Dortmund (from 1978).
literature
- Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.
Web links
- Ursula Hook in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Incredible fear . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1982, pp. 228-231 ( Online - Oct. 4, 1982 ).
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hook, Ursula |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanau |