- Helga Haase
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athletename = Helga Haase
fullname = Helga Haase-Obschernitzki
daily occupation =Major of the "Volkspolizei "
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1934|06|09
cityofbirth =Danzig (nowGdańsk , Poland)
countryofbirth =Germany
dateofdeath = death date and age|1989|06|16|1934|06|09
cityofdeath =East Berlin
countryofdeath =East Germany
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specialty =Speedskating
previous teams =SC Dynamo Berlin
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championships as player = 21
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updated =Helga Haase (née Obschernitzki,
June 9 ,1934 –June 16 ,1989 ) was a speedskater in the GDR.She was born in
Danzig and died inEast Berlin .Career
Helga's career began 1952, when she introduced herself at 18 years at the
SC Dynamo Berlin , which looked for high-speed ice skaters to the world and married thereupon her coachHelmut Haase . From 1957 to 1967, Haase ("hare") reached over 21GDR master skating titles, of it nine titles in combination results (samalog). With the1960 Winter Olympics inSquaw Valley , [http://www.desg.de/akt_news_print.php?newsid=306] she won, as first German speedskater and as a first sportswoman of the GDR, a gold medal at theOlympic Winter Games , the gold medal over 500m , the silver medal over 1000 m and finished at a respectable 8th place over 1500 m., and all of this despite the prohibition of the entry for her husband/coach. In the same year she set up the multi-combination world record in Davos,Switzerland ) [http://www.desg.de/df_historie.php] In the Olympic season of 1964, she reached again peak performance, resulting in a fourth place over 1000 m and a fifth place over 1500 m with the Olympic Games inInnsbruck . In 1978, her grandson Robert Haase discovered the light of the world. Starting from 1984 she went into apension because of disablement . [http://www.desg.de/skater.php?anzeige=skater&skater=11] She worked also in the central guidance of the "Sportvereinigung Dynamo ".Records
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Bibliography
* Eng, Trond. "All Time International Championships, Complete Results 1889 - 2002". Askim, Norway: WSSSA Skøytenytt, 2002.
* Teigen, Magne. "Komplette resultater, Internasjonale Mesterskap 1889-1989" (in Norwegian). Veggli, Norway: WSSSA Skøytenytt, 1989.
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