Monika Zehrt
Monika Zehrt
Monika Zehrt in 1972 |
Personal information |
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Born |
29 September 1952 (1952-09-29) (age 64) Riesa, Germany |
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Height |
1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) |
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Weight |
56 kg (123 lb) |
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Sport |
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Sport |
Athletics |
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Event(s) |
400 m |
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Club |
SC Dynamo Berlin |
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Achievements and titles |
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Personal best(s) |
51.08 (1972) |
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Monika Zehrt (born 29 September 1952) is a retired East German sprinter who specialized in the 400 m. At the 1972 Olympics she won gold medals in the individual 400 m and 4 × 400 m relay, setting an Olympic and a world record, respectively. Zehrt also won relay golds at the 1971 European Championships and the 1970 and 1973 European Cup. During her career she set one world record in the 400 m and four in the 4 × 400 m. After retiring in 1974, she earned a degree in external trade and a leading position at a furniture company. She married, but then divorced Jochen Landgraf, a 400 m hurdler.[1]
References
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- 1972 Käsling, Kühne, Seidler, Zehrt (GDR)
- 1976 Maletzki, Rohde, Streidt, Brehmer (GDR)
- 1980 Prorochenko, Goyshchik, Zyuskova, Nazarova (URS)
- 1984 Leatherwood, S. Howard, Brisco-Hooks, Cheeseborough, Dixon, D. Howard (USA)
- 1988 Ledovskaya, Nazarova, Pinigina, Bryzhina, Dzhigalova (URS)
- 1992 Ruzina, Dzhigalova, Nazarova, Bryzhina, Nurutdinova, Shmonina (EUN)
- 1996 Stevens, Malone-Wallace, Graham, Miles, Wilson (USA)
- 2000 Miles Clark, Hennagan, Colander, Anderson (USA)
- 2004 Trotter, Henderson, Richards, Hennagan, Robinson (USA)
- 2008 Wineberg, Felix, Henderson, Richards, Hastings (USA)
- 2012 Trotter, Felix, McCorory, Richards-Ross, Baker, Dixon (USA)
- 2016 Felix, Francis, Hastings, Okolo, Ellis-Watson, McCorory (USA)
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- 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)
- 2012: Ukraine (Olishevska, Zemlyak, Pyhyda, Lohvynenko)
- 2014: France (Gayot, Hurtis, Raharolahy, Gueï)
- 2016: Great Britain (Diamond, Onuora, Doyle, Bundy-Davies)
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