Irmgard Praetz (9 August 1920 – 7 November 2008) was a German
track and field
Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...
athlete who competed mainly in the
long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a ...
. She was the gold medallist in that event at the
1938 European Athletics Championships
The 2nd European Athletics Championships was a continental athletics competition for European athletes which was held in two places in 1938. The men's event took place in Paris, France between 3–5 September while the women's events were in Vien ...
. She achieved her career best mark of at the competition, which ranked her third globally for the year.
Praetz was born in
Salzwedel
Salzwedel (, officially known as Hansestadt Salzwedel; Low German: ''Soltwedel'') is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is the capital of the district (''Kreis'') of Altmarkkreis Salzwedel, and has a population of approximately 21,500. Salz ...
and died in
Garching bei München
Garching bei München (''Garching near Munich'') or Garching is a town in Bavaria, Germany, near Munich. It is the home of several research institutes and university departments on its campus. It became a city on 14 September 1990.
Location
The ...
. She was the 1938 long jump champion at the
German Athletics Championships
The German Athletics Championships (german: Deutsche Leichtathletik-Meisterschaften) are the national championships in athletics of Germany, organised annually by the Deutscher Leichtathletik-Verband.
The competition features track and field eve ...
and was runner-up in the discipline in 1940. After
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
she won a national title in the
women's pentathlon
The pentathlon or women's pentathlon is a combined track and field event in which each woman competes in five separate events over one day (formerly two days). The distance or time for each event is converted to points via scoring tables, with t ...
. She later married and took the name Römer.
[Peter Matthews: Athletics 2009. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2009, . Retrieved on 2015-12-28.]
See also
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References
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1920 births
2008 deaths
People from Salzwedel
People from the Province of Saxony
German female long jumpers
Sportspeople from Saxony-Anhalt
European Athletics Championships medalists