Inge Helten
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Full name | Ingeborg Helten |
Born | 31 December 1950 (1950-12-31) (age 73) Westum, Sinzig, Rhineland-Palatinate |
Ingeborg "Inge" Helten (born 31 December 1950) is a former athlete from West Germany, who competed mainly in the 100 metres. She was born in Westum, Sinzig, Rhineland-Palatinate.
Biography
She won her first international Gold medal at the 1971 European Athletics Championships as a member of the 4 × 100 m relay team, where she placed 4th in the 100 metre final. She took a silver as the anchor of the 4 × 100 m relay squad in the 1974 European Championships in Rome.[1]
Helten set a world record for 100 meters in June 1976, with an 11.04 clocking; she competed for West Germany at the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in the 100 metres, winning a bronze medal behind teammate Annegret Richter and East German Renate Stecher.[2] She placed 5th in the 200 meter final, where the top 5 women were German. She then joined with Annegret and fellow West Germans Elvira Possekel and Annegret Kroniger in the 4 × 100 m relay, where they won the silver medal behind the East Germans in 42.59 to 42.55.
See also
References
- ^ "European Championships | Athletix.org". Archived from the original on 2012-08-13. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Inge Helten". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2009-09-01.
External links
- Ingeborg Helten at World Athletics
- Ingeborg Helten at European Athletics (archive)
- Inge Helten at Olympics.com
- Inge Helten at Olympic.org (archived)
- Inge Helten at Olympedia
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Preceded by | Women's 100 m World Record Holder June 13, 1976 – July 25, 1976 | Succeeded by |
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- 1938: Germany (Kohl, Krauß, Albus, Kühnel)
- 1946: Netherlands (v.d. Kade-Koudijs, Witziers-Timmer, Adema, Blankers-Koen)
- 1950: Great Britain (Hay, Desforges, Hall, Foulds)
- 1954: Soviet Union (Krepkina, Uliskina, Itkina, Turova)
- 1958: Soviet Union (Krepkina, Kepp, Polyakova, Maslovska)
- 1962: Poland (Ciepły, Sobotta, Szyroka, Piątkowska)
- 1966: Poland (Bednarek, Straszyńska, Kirszenstein, Kłobukowska)
- 1969: GDR (Höfer, Meissner, Podeswa, Vogt)
- 1971: FRG (Schittenhelm, Helten, Irrgang, Mickler)
- 1974: GDR (Maletzki, Stecher, Heinich, Eckert)
- 1978: Soviet Union (Anisimova, Maslakova, Kondratyeva, Storozhkova)
- 1982: GDR (Walther, Eckert, Rieger, Göhr)
- 1986: GDR (Gladisch, Rieger, Brestrich-Auerswald, Göhr)
- 1990: GDR (Möller, Krabbe, Behrendt, Günther)
- 1994: Germany (Paschke, Knoll, Zipp, Lichtenhagen)
- 1998: France (Benth, Bangué, Félix, Arron)
- 2002: France (Combe, Hurtis, Félix, Sidibé)
- 2006: Russia (Gushchina, Rusakova, Khabarova, Grigoryeva)
- 2010: Ukraine (Povh, Pohrebnyak, Ryemyen, Bryzhina)
- 2012: Germany (Günther, Cibis, Pinto, Sailer)
- 2014: Great Britain (Philip, Nelson, J. Williams, Henry)
- 2016: Netherlands (Samuel, Schippers, Van Schagen, Sedney)
- 2018: Great Britain (Philip, Lansiquot, B. Williams, Asher-Smith)
- 2022: Germany (Mayer, Haase, Lückenkemper, Burghardt)
- 2024: Great Britain (Asher-Smith, Henry, Hunt, Neita)
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