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Ulrike Meyfarth

Updated:2008-07-08 14:13 | Source:beijing2008.cn

  Los Angeles, August 1984, Games of the XXIII Olympiad: Ulrike MEYFARTH of the Federal Republic of Germany has cleared the bar during the high jump event. She won the gold medal in this event with a height of 2.02 metres. Credit: Getty Images/Tony Duffy

  Born: 4 May 1956

  Birthplace: K?ln (Germany)

  Nationality: Germany

  Sport: Athletics

  ATTENDANCE AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES

  Munich 1972

  Montreal 1976

  Los Angeles 1984

  AWARDS

  Olympic medals:

  Gold: 2

  Other results:

  World Championships

  Silver: 1 (83)

  High Jump Gold At 16

  When Ulrike Meyfarth was sixteen years old, she finished third in the high jump at the 1972 West German Olympic trials and qualified for the Olympics. In Munich, she beat her personal best by seven centimeters to tie the world record and earn the gold medal. To this day, she is the youngest person of either sex to win an athletics gold medal in an individual event. At the 1976 Olympics, Meyfarth failed to qualify for the final, and in 1980 her nation boycotted. However, she returned to the Olympics in 1984 and jumped 2.02m to earn a second gold medal. This time she became the oldest person to win an Olympic high jump competition. She is also one of only two women to earn athletics gold medals twelve years apart.

Editor : LiuAnqi

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