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Rosemarie "Rosi" Ackermann (; born 4 April 1952) is a German former
In 1978, she lost her European title to Italian jumper
high jump
The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...
er. On 26 August 1977 in Berlin
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, she became the first female high jumper to clear a height of 2 metres.
Biography
She was born inLohsa
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, Saxony
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. As Rosemarie Witschas, she represented East Germany
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in the 1972 Summer Olympics
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in Munich
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, finishing seventh behind Ulrike Meyfarth
Ulrike Nasse-Meyfarth (; born 4 May 1956) is a German former high jumper. She won the Olympic title twice, in 1972 and 1984. She is the youngest Olympic champion ever in women's high jump, and at the time of her 1984 triumph, she also was the o ...
.
In 1974, at the European Championships
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in Rome
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, she won her first international title, setting a new world record
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of 1.95m. Later that year, she married handball
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player Manfred Ackermann, and assumed his surname. Two years later, when she won the gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics
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held in Montreal, Canada
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In 1978, she lost her European title to Italian jumper Sara Simeoni
Sara Simeoni (born 19 April 1953) is an Italian former high jumper, who won a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics and twice set a world record in the women's high jump.
Biography
Sara Simeoni was born in Rivoli Veronese, in the province of V ...
. Ackermann retired from athletics
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** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport
* Athletics (physical culture), competiti ...
after the 1980 Olympics, at which she placed fourth, just outside the medals.
Ackermann is the last female high jumper to set a world record using the straddle technique
The straddle technique was the dominant style in the high jump before the development of the Fosbury Flop. It is a successor of the Western roll, with which it is sometimes confused.
Unlike the scissors or flop style of jump, where the jumper a ...
. She is also the last high jumper of either gender to win an Olympic gold medal in the high jump with that technique.
Competing for the sports club SC Cottbus, Ackerman was East German high jump champion in 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1979 and 1980, and also won bronze medals in 1969 and 1972. She was the East German indoor champion in 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977 and 1980.
See also
* Female two metres clubReferences
External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ackermann, Rosemarie 1952 births Living people People from Bautzen (district) East German female high jumpers Olympic athletes of East Germany Olympic gold medalists for East Germany Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics World record setters in athletics (track and field) East German sportspeople in doping cases European Athletics Championships medalists Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field) Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold Track & Field News Athlete of the Year winners Sportspeople from Saxony