- Monika Zehrt
-
Monika Zehrt Personal information Born 29 September 1952 Medal recordWomen's Athletics Competitor for East Germany
Olympic Games Gold 1972 Munich 400 metres Gold 1972 Munich 4 x 400 metres Monika Zehrt (born 29 September 1952 in Riesa, Saxony) is a former sprint athlete, who competed for East Germany.
She won two gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, in 400 m and 4x400 m relay.
She is a four-time world record-holder in 4x400 m relay and one-time world record-holder in 400 m.
External links
Olympic Champions in Women's 400 m - 1964: Betty Cuthbert (AUS)
- 1968: Colette Besson (FRA)
- 1972: Monika Zehrt (GDR)
- 1976: Irena Szewińska (POL)
- 1980: Marita Koch (GDR)
- 1984: Valerie Brisco-Hooks (USA)
- 1988: Olha Bryzhina (URS)
- 1992: Marie-José Pérec (FRA)
- 1996: Marie-José Pérec (FRA)
- 2000: Cathy Freeman (AUS)
- 2004: Tonique Williams-Darling (JAM)
- 2008: Christine Ohuruogu (GBR)
Olympic Champions in Women's 4×400 m relay - 1972: East Germany (Käsling, Kühne, Seidler, Zehrt)
- 1976: East Germany (Maletzki, Rohde, Streidt, Brehmer)
- 1980: Soviet Union (Prorochenko, Goistchik, Zyuskova, Nazarova)
- 1984: United States (Leatherwood, Howard, Brisco-Hooks, Cheeseborough)
- 1988: Sovie Union (Ledovskaya, Nazarova, Pinigina, Bryzhina)
- 1992: Unified Team (Ruzina, Dzhigalova, Nazarova, Bryzhina, Nurutdinova, Shmonina)
- 1996: United States (Stevens, Malone-Wallace, Graham, Miles, Wilson)
- 2000: United States (Miles Clark, Hennagan, Colander, Anderson)
- 2004: United States (Trotter, Henderson, Richards, Hennagan, Cox, Robinson)
- 2008: United States (Wineberg, Felix, Henderson, Richards, Hastings)
European Champions in Women's 4 x 400 m relay 1969: Great Britain (Stirling, Lowe, Simpson, Board) • 1971: East Germany (Kühne, Lohse, Seidler, Zehrt) • 1974: East Germany (Rohde, Dietsch, Handt, Streidt) • 1978: East Germany (Marquardt, Krug, Brehmer, Koch) • 1982: East Germany (Siemon, Busch, Rübsam, Koch) • 1986: East Germany • 1990: East Germany (Derr, Hesselbarth, Müller, Breuer) • 1994: France (Landre, Elien, Dorsile, Pérec) • 1998: Germany (Feller, Rohländer, Rieger, Breuer) • 2002: Germany (Ekpo-Umoh, Rockmeier, Marx, Breuer) • 2006: Russia (Pospelova, Ivanova, Zaytseva, Veshkurova) • 2010: Russia (Firova, Kapachinskaya, Krivoshapka, Ustalova)
This article about an athletics Olympic medalist for Germany is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.