Gudrun Scholz née Scheller (born 14 January 1940) is a retired German

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player. Scholz joined

Eintracht Braunschweig Braunschweiger Turn- und Sportverein Eintracht von 1895 e.V., commonly known as Eintracht Braunschweig () or BTSV (), is a German association football, football and sports club based in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony. The club was one of the founding ...

in 1952, initially competing as a

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er. In 1959 she set a German record at 6.22m. In 1961, Scholz placed third in the long jump competition at the

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. In the early 1960s, she joined Eintracht Braunschweig's field hockey team. With her club, she won nine German championship titles. She also played 30 games in total for the West German national team. With West Germany, Scholz won the 1976

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. She scored both goals in the final, a 2–0 win over

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. In 1977, Scholz was awarded the

Silbernes Lorbeerblatt Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (Silver Laurel Leaf), the highest sports award in Germany, was endowed on 23 June 1950 by the German President Theodor Heuss. It is awarded to athletes and teams of exemplary character that have won medals at Olympic and ...

and the ''Paul-Reinberg-Plakette'', the highest award of the

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. In 1988, she was inducted into the

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of the Lower Saxon Institute of Sports History.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scholz, Gudrun 1940 births Living people German female field hockey players West German female long jumpers Sportspeople from Braunschweig Recipients of the Silver Laurel Leaf