Sigrid Ulbricht (née Heimann; born 25 July 1958) is a German former

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 events ...

athlete who competed 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 gr ...

for

East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

. She was the champion at the IAAF World Cup and

European Cup The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competit ...

in 1981 and represented her country at the

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in 1980.

Career

Born in

Klötze Klötze is a town in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel (district), in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated approximately 20 km northwest of Gardelegen, and 35 km northeast of Wolfsburg. It was mentioned first in 1144 with the name ''Cloetze'' ...

Bezirk Magdeburg The Bezirk Magdeburg was a district (''Bezirk'') of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Magdeburg. History The district was established, with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, substituting the old German states. After 3 Octo ...

, she took up

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and became a member of the SC Magdeburg sports club.Sigird Ulbricht
Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2015-12-13. Ulbricht originally competed in the women's pentathlon and recorded a best score of 4303 points in 1977.Sigrid Ulbricht
Track and Field Brinkster. Retrieved on 2015-12-13. She rose to prominence in the long jump in 1980 with a runner-up finish at the

East German Athletics Championships The East German Athletics Championships (german: DDR Leichtathletik-Meisterschaften) was an annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the East German Athletics Federation, which served as the East German national championships for th ...

behind

Siegrun Siegl Siegrun Siegl ( Thon, born 29 October 1954 in Apolda, Thuringia) is a retired East German athlete who specialised in the pentathlon and later long jump. Biography She finished fourth in pentathlon at the 1974 European Championships. On 19 May ...

.East German Championships
GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-12-13. That year she was selected for the Moscow Olympics and finished seventh in the final. Ulbricht's best season came in 1981. She was runner-up nationally, this time to

Heike Drechsler Heike Gabriela Drechsler (; ; born 16 December 1964) is a German former track and field athlete who represented East Germany and later Germany. One of the most successful long jumpers of all-time, she is a former world record holder and ranks ...

, but claimed a series of international medals. At the

1981 European Athletics Indoor Championships The 1981 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held in Grenoble, a city in France, between 21–22 February 1981. It was the second time the championships were held in the city. The track used for the championships was 180 metres long. Meda ...

she was the silver medallist behind her West German rival Karin Hänel. She won both the semi-final and final stages of the 1981 European Cup with bests of then . She achieved a lifetime best of in

Jena Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a popu ...

that August before going on to win the

1981 IAAF World Cup The 3rd IAAF World Cup in Athletics was an international track and field sporting event sponsored by the International Association of Athletics Federations, held on September 4–6, 1981, at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy. Overall results M ...

in a meet record of . Ulbricht skipped the following two seasons and made her last appearances in 1984, coming second to Drechsler at the national championships and setting a season's best of . She had a daughter Anne Ulbricht who later went on to represent Germany in

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

. Ulbricht was among the athletes subject to East German state doping, with her documents being revealed by

Brigitte Berendonk Brigitte Berendonk (born 2 May 1942) is a German Sport of athletics, athlete. She competed in the women's discus throw at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics. Publications * References

1942 births Living people Peop ...

: Doping. Von der Forschung zum Betrug. Reinbek 1992, , S. 182.

International competitions

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ulbricht, Sigrid 1958 births Living people People from Altmarkkreis Salzwedel People from Bezirk Magdeburg German female long jumpers East German female long jumpers Athletes from Saxony-Anhalt Olympic athletes for East Germany East German sportspeople in doping cases Doping cases in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics SC Magdeburg athletes

Career

International competitions

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