Heide Rosendahl
Personal information | |
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Born | 14 February 1947 (age 77) Hückeswagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) |
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Club | Bayer Leverkusen |
Heidemarie Ecker-Rosendahl (born 14 February 1947) is a retired German athlete who competed mainly in the pentathlon and long jump. She set a world record of 6.84 m in long jump at Turin in 1970 which stood for five years.
Biography
She won the long jump gold medal in the 1972 Munich Olympics with a leap of 6.78 m, one centimetre ahead of Diana Yorgova of Bulgaria. Two days later in a thrilling pentathlon, she finished second to Mary Peters of Britain.[1]
After the three events on the first day Rosendahl was in the fifth place, 301 points behind Peters. On the second day, she jumped 6.83 m in the longjump (one cm short of the record) and ran the 200 m in 22.96 seconds. She finished with 4791 points, 16 points better than Burglinde Pollak's world record. She held the world record for 1.12 seconds before Peters bettered it by 10 points on finishing her 200 m race in 24.08 seconds. To further prove her versatility, she helped the West German 4×100 m team with Christiane Krause, Ingrid Mickler-Becker and Annegret Richter to the gold medal and a world record; holding off the East German sprints champion Renate Stecher, in the process.
In 1970 and 1972 Rosendahl was chosen as the German Sportswoman of the Year. She worked as athletics coach at TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen (1976–1990) and Deutsche Leichtathletik-Verband (1993–2001). She is married to John Ecker, an American basketball player who won the 1969, 1970 and 1971 NCAA Championships as a member of the UCLA Bruins. Their son, Danny Ecker, is a world-class pole vaulter. Rosendahl's father, Heinz Rosendahl, was the German champion in the discus throw in 1948, 1951 and 1953.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Heide Rosendahl. sports-reference.com
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Preceded by | German Sportswoman of the Year 1970 |
Succeeded by Ingrid Mickler-Becker |
Preceded by | German Sportswoman of the Year 1972 |
Succeeded by Uta Schorn |
- Use dmy dates from August 2014
- 1947 births
- Living people
- People from Hückeswagen
- West German long jumpers
- West German sprinters
- West German heptathletes
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of West Germany
- Olympic gold medalists for West Germany
- Olympic silver medalists for West Germany
- Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- European Athletics Championships medalists