- Sabine Braun
Sabine Braun (born
June 19 ,1965 inEssen ) is a German Olympic athlete intrack and field . Because she had talents in several disciplines, Sabine Braun competed in theheptathlon and had a number of successes. Her international sport career began in August 1982 with the European Junior Championships where she won second place.In 1984 she placed sixth at the XXIII Olympic Summer Games in
Los Angeles, California . At the XXV Olympic Summer Games inBarcelona, Spain she won the bronze medal behindJackie Joyner-Kersee from the United States who won the gold andIrina Belova fromRussia who won the silver. She scored 6649 points, her results in the competition were 13.25 s - 1.94 m - 24.27 s - 6.02 m - 51.12 m - 2:14.35 min.At the World Championships she won gold in 1991 and 1997 and silver in 1993. At the European Championships she twice won gold, in 1990 and then again in 1994, as well as a silver medal in the 2002 competition.
She was the German champion in 1989 and four-time winner at the competitions in
Ratingen andGötzis . At the Götzis meet in 1992 she established a German record of 6985 points, which still stands. [http://www.leichtathletik.de/dokumente/ergebnisse/images/ewige_dlv_bestenliste.pdf]Sabine Braun represented LAV Düsseldorf, and then in 1987 for LG
Bayer Leverkusen and then forTV Wattenscheid . When she was active she was 1.74m tall and weighed 62 kg. In the fall of 2002 she ended her athletic career.Private life
Sabine Braun is openly lesbian and lives with retired javelin thrower
Beate Peters . [ [http://www.lesben-magazin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=200 Lesbian love in sports "Lesbische Liebe im Sport" (German)] ]References
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