Melanie Paschke (born 29 June 1970 in
Braunschweig
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) is a retired
German
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sprinter, who specialised in the
100 metres
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,
200 metres
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and
4 × 100 metres relay
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.
Biography
Her personal best time in the 100 m is 11.04 seconds, achieved in June 1995 in
Bremen. This places her tenth on the German all-time list, behind
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 ...
,
Marita Koch,
Silke Gladisch Silke may refer to:
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,
Katrin Krabbe
Katrin Krabbe (; later Zimmermann, born 22 November 1969) is a German former track and field athlete. She represented East Germany (GDR) at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and went on to win the 100 metres and 200 metres titles at the 1991 World Cham ...
,
Heike Drechsler
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,
Bärbel Wöckel
Bärbel Wöckel ( Eckert; born 21 March 1955 in Leipzig) is a retired East German sprinter. She never ran a world record in the individual disciplines. However, she ran several world records as part of relay teams with Doris Maletzki ...
,
Annegret Richter,
Romy Müller
Romy Müller ( Schneider; born 26 July 1958 in Lübbenau, Bezirk Cottbus) is an East German athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres and for the SC Dynamo Berlin and the Sportvereinigung Dynamo.
Biography
She competed for East Germany in ...
,
Monika Hamann,
Inge Helten and
Ingrid Auerswald.
Paschke competed for the clubs
LG Braunschweig and
TV Wattenscheid 01 during her active career.
Achievements
See also
*
German all-time top lists - 100 metres
References
External links
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1970 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Braunschweig
LG Braunschweig athletes
TV Wattenscheid athletes
German female sprinters
German national athletics champions
Olympic athletes of Germany
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
World Athletics Championships medalists
World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists
European Athletics Championships medalists
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
Universiade gold medalists for Germany
World Athletics Championships winners
Medalists at the 1995 Summer Universiade
Olympic female sprinters