Gesine Walther
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![]() | 1982 Athens | 4x400 m relay |
Gesine Walther (born 6 October 1962) is a retired German sprinter.[1]
Biography
In 1982 Walther became the first European indoor champion in the 200 m event.[2] At the 1982 European Championships she finished fifth in the 100 m, fourth in the 200 m and won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay together with teammates Bärbel Wöckel, Sabine Günther and Marlies Göhr. The team finished in 42.19 seconds with Walther running the first leg.[3]
On 3 June 1984 in Erfurt, Walther, together with Sabine Busch, Dagmar Rübsam and Marita Koch, set a world record in the 4 × 400 m relay of 3:15.92 minutes. Both the world record and the European record was improved at the 1988 Olympics.[4]
Walther represented the sports club SC Turbine Erfurt, and won silver medals at the East German championships in 1984 (100 m)[5] and 1980 and 1982 (200 m).[6] Her personal best times were 11.13 in the 100 m, achieved in August 1982 in Cottbus,[7] 22.24 in the 200 m, achieved in July 1982 in Dresden[8] and 50.03 in the 400 m, achieved in May 1984 in Jena.[9]
Walther is 1.76 metres tall; during her active career she weighed 65 kg.
See also
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ European Indoor Championships (Women) - GBR Athletics
- ^ Women 4x100m Relay European Championships 1982 Athens (GRE)
- ^ IAAF.org - Records by Event - 4 x 400 metres relay
- ^ East German championships, women's 100 m
- ^ East German championships, women's 200 m
- ^ World women's all-time best 100m (last updated 2001)
- ^ World women's all-time best 200m (last updated 2001)
- ^ World women's all-time best 400m (last updated 2001)
External links
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- Gesine Walther at World Athletics
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- 1938:
Germany (Kohl, Krauß, Albus, Kühnel)
- 1946:
Netherlands (v.d. Kade-Koudijs, Witziers-Timmer, Adema, Blankers-Koen)
- 1950:
Great Britain (Hay, Desforges, Hall, Foulds)
- 1954:
Soviet Union (Krepkina, Uliskina, Itkina, Turova)
- 1958:
Soviet Union (Krepkina, Kepp, Polyakova, Maslovska)
- 1962:
Poland (Ciepły, Sobotta, Szyroka, Piątkowska)
- 1966:
Poland (Bednarek, Straszyńska, Kirszenstein, Kłobukowska)
- 1969:
GDR (Höfer, Meissner, Podeswa, Vogt)
- 1971:
FRG (Schittenhelm, Helten, Irrgang, Mickler)
- 1974:
GDR (Maletzki, Stecher, Heinich, Eckert)
- 1978:
Soviet Union (Anisimova, Maslakova, Kondratyeva, Storozhkova)
- 1982:
GDR (Walther, Eckert, Rieger, Göhr)
- 1986:
GDR (Gladisch, Rieger, Brestrich-Auerswald, Göhr)
- 1990:
GDR (Möller, Krabbe, Behrendt, Günther)
- 1994:
Germany (Paschke, Knoll, Zipp, Lichtenhagen)
- 1998:
France (Benth, Bangué, Félix, Arron)
- 2002:
France (Combe, Hurtis, Félix, Sidibé)
- 2006:
Russia (Gushchina, Rusakova, Khabarova, Grigoryeva)
- 2010:
Ukraine (Povh, Pohrebnyak, Ryemyen, Bryzhina)
- 2012:
Germany (Günther, Cibis, Pinto, Sailer)
- 2014:
Great Britain (Philip, Nelson, J. Williams, Henry)
- 2016:
Netherlands (Samuel, Schippers, Van Schagen, Sedney)
- 2018:
Great Britain (Philip, Lansiquot, B. Williams, Asher-Smith)
- 2022:
Germany (Mayer, Haase, Lückenkemper, Burghardt)
- 2024:
Great Britain (Asher-Smith, Henry, Hunt, Neita)