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Sabine Günther
Sabine Günther (''née'' Rieger; born 6 November 1963, in Jena) is a retired East German sprinter who competed mainly in the 200 metres. Biography She won the 200 metres gold medal at the 1981 European Junior Championships. At the 1982 European Championships she won the bronze medal in the 200 metres and a gold medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay together with teammates Gesine Walther, Bärbel Wöckel and Marlies Göhr. The team finished in 42.19 seconds with Günther running the third leg. The relay team of Sabine Günther, Silke Gladisch, Marlies Göhr und Ingrid Auerswald set a world record of 41.37 seconds at the 1985 IAAF World Cup event in Canberra, Australia. The world record stood until 2012. At the 1986 European Championships Günther only placed seventh in the individual distance, but won another gold medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay together with Silke Gladisch, Ingrid Auerswald and Marlies Göhr. Their time was 41.84 seconds, and Günther ran the second leg. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1986-0627-048, Silke Gladisch, Sabine Rieger
The German Federal Archives or Bundesarchiv (BArch) (german: Bundesarchiv) are the National Archives of Germany. They were established at the current location in Koblenz in 1952. They are subordinated to the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media ( Claudia Roth since 2021) under the German Chancellery, and before 1998, to the Federal Ministry of the Interior. On 6 December 2008, the Archives donated 100,000 photos to the public, by making them accessible via Wikimedia Commons. History The federal archive for institutions and authorities in Germany, the first precursor to the present-day Federal Archives, was established in Potsdam, Brandenburg in 1919, a later date than in other European countries. This national archive documented German government dating from the founding of the North German Confederation in 1867. It also included material from the older German Confederation and the Imperial Chamber Court. The oldest documents in this collection dated back to the year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1986 European Championships In Athletics - Women's 4 X 100 Metres Relay
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 **Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993. *January 11 – The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges, Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened. *January 13–January 24, 24 – South Yemen Civil War. *January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. *January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus. *January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date to avoid a coincidence of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Births
Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney, Australia. * January 2 – Vietnam War – Battle of Ap Bac: The Viet Cong win their first major victory. * January 9 – A total penumbral lunar eclipse is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and is the 56th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 114. Gamma has a value of −1.01282. It occurs on the night between Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10, 1963. * January 13 – 1963 Togolese coup d'état: A military coup in Togo results in the installation of coup leader Emmanuel Bodjollé as president. * January 17 – A last quarter moon occurs between the penumbral lunar eclipse and the annular solar eclipse, only 12 hours, 29 minutes after apogee. * January 19 – Soviet spy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cottbus
Cottbus (; Lower Sorbian: ''Chóśebuz'' ; Polish: Chociebuż) is a university city and the second-largest city in Brandenburg, Germany. Situated around southeast of Berlin, on the River Spree, Cottbus is also a major railway junction with extensive sidings/depots. Although only a small Sorbian minority lives in Cottbus itself, the city is considered as the political and cultural center of the Sorbs in Lower Lusatia. Spelling Until the beginning of the 20th century, the spelling of the city's name was disputed. In Berlin, the spelling "Kottbus" was preferred, and it is still used for the capital's ("Cottbus Gate"), but locally the traditional spelling "Cottbus" (which defies standard German-language rules) was preferred, and it is now used in most circumstances. Because the official spelling used locally before the spelling reforms of 1996 had contravened even the standardized spelling rules already in place, the (german: Ständiger Ausschuss für geographische Namen) st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Berlin
East Berlin was the ''de facto'' capital city of East Germany from 1949 to 1990. Formally, it was the Soviet sector of Berlin, established in 1945. The American, British, and French sectors were known as West Berlin. From 13 August 1961 until 9 November 1989, East Berlin was separated from West Berlin by the Berlin Wall. The Western Allied powers did not recognize East Berlin as the GDR's capital, nor the GDR's authority to govern East Berlin. On 3 October 1990, the day Germany was officially reunified, East and West Berlin formally reunited as the city of Berlin. Overview With the London Protocol of 1944 signed on 12 September 1944, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union decided to divide Germany into three occupation zones and to establish a special area of Berlin, which was occupied by the three Allied Forces together. In May 1945, the Soviet Union installed a city government for the whole city that was called "Magistrate of Greater Berlin", which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SC Motor Jena
FC Carl Zeiss Jena is a German football club based in Jena, Thuringia. Formed in 1903 and initially associated with the Carl Zeiss AG factory, they were one of the strongest clubs in East Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s, winning the DDR-Oberliga and the FDGB-Pokal three times each and reaching the 1981 European Cup Winners' Cup Final. Since German reunification in 1990, the club have competed no higher than the second tier. In the 2021–22 season, Jena played in the Regionalliga Nordost. History The club was founded in May 1903 by workers at the Carl Zeiss AG optics factory as the company-sponsored ''Fussball-Club der Firma Carl Zeiss''. The club underwent name changes in 1911 to ''Fussball Club Carl Zeiss Jena e.V.'' and in March 1917 to ''1. Sportverein Jena e.V.'' The 1930s and World War II In 1933, ''1. SV Jena'' joined the Gauliga Mitte, one of 16 top-flight divisions formed in the reorganization of German football under the Third Reich. The team captured division ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Thomas (German Athlete)
Andrea Irmgard Thomas, née Bersch (born 9 April 1963 in Güls) is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres. At the 1987 World Championships in Athletics in Rome she finished fifth in 4x100 m relay for West Germany. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul she finished fourth in 4x100 m relay and 4x400 m relay. At the 1990 European Championships in Athletics in Split she won a silver medal in 4x100 m relay for West Germany West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 O ... together with Gabi Lippe, Ulrike Sarvari and Silke Knoll. In addition she finished eighth in 200 metres and fourth in 4x400 m relay. International competitions References * 1963 births Living people West German female sprinters German female sprinters Athletes (track and field) at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silke Knoll
Silke-Beate Knoll (born 21 February 1967 in Rottweil) is a former German track and field athlete and participant in the Olympic Games who had success in the 1980s and 1990s as a sprinter. Her first success was the 1986 German junior title over 200 metres. As part of the 4 × 200 metres relay team of the SC Eintracht Hamm, she set a world indoor record in 1988. Her greatest successes were the bronze medal in the 4 × 100 metres relay race at the 1995 World Championships (together with Melanie Paschke, Silke Lichtenhagen and Gabriele Becker) and the gold medal at the 1994 European Championships in the same event (together with Melanie Paschke, Bettina Zipp and Silke Lichtenhagen). She placed fourth in the individual 200 metre sprint. Knoll was a member of the German national team at many important international meetings until 1996. She entered the 200 metre sprint at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul but was eliminated in the semi-final. She won the silver medal at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Philipp
Andrea Philipp (born 29 July 1971) is a retired German sprinter. A three-time Olympian, she won a bronze medal in the 200 metres at the 1999 World Championships (tied with Merlene Frazer), and a gold medal in the 100 metres at the 1990 World Junior Championships. Biography Born in Bützow, her personal best time in the 200 metres is 22.25 seconds, achieved during the heats of the 1999 World Championships in Seville. This places her eighth on the German all-time list, behind Marita Koch, Heike Drechsler, Marlies Göhr, Silke Gladisch, Bärbel Wöckel, Katrin Krabbe and Gesine Walther. In the 100 metres she has a personal best time of 11.05 seconds, achieved in June 1997 in Dortmund. She competed for the clubs Schweriner SC, TV Schriesheim and LG Olympia Dortmund LG Corporation (or LG Group) (), formerly Lucky-Goldstar from 1983 to 1995 (Korean: ''Leokki Geumseong''; ), is a South Korean multinational conglomerate founded by Koo In-hwoi and managed by successive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics At The 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 Metres Relay
These are the official results of the women's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There were a total of fourteen nations competing. Medalists * Athletes who participated in the heats only and received medals. Records These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1992 Summer Olympics. Results Final Heats Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) advance to the final Final, Finals or The Final may refer to: * Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which decides a winner for an event ** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of con .... See also * 1990 Women's European Championships 4 × 100 m Relay (Split) * 1991 Women's World Championships 4 × 100 m Relay (Tokyo) * 1993 Women's World Championships 4 × 100 m Relay (Stuttgart) * 1994 Women's European Championships 4 × 100 m Relay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south; it covers an area of , with a population of almost 84 million within its 16 constituent states. Germany borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before AD 100. In 962, the Kingdom of Germany formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerstin Behrendt
Kerstin Behrendt (born 2 September 1967 in Leisnig) is a former German athlete, who mainly competed in the 100 m during her career. Behrendt competed for East Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea, where she won the silver medal in the women's 4 × 100 m relay with her team mates Silke Möller, Ingrid Auerswald and Marlies Göhr Marlies Göhr (née Oelsner, born 21 March 1958 in Gera, Bezirk Gera) is a former East German track and field athlete, the winner of the 100 metres at the inaugural World Championships in 1983. She ranked in the top 10 of the 100 m world r .... See also * German all-time top lists – 200 metres References Sports Reference 1967 births Living people People from Leisnig People from Bezirk Leipzig East German female sprinters Sportspeople from Saxony Olympic athletes of East Germany World Athletics Championships athletes for East Germany Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Oly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
