You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (May 2022) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
View a machine-translated version of the German article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Ruth Schleiermacher]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Ruth Schleiermacher}} to the talk page.
Schleiermacher was born in Wunsiedel, Bavaria. At her international debut during the Wch Allround of 1967 in Deventer she finished 27th. A year later, during the op het Wch Allround of 1968, she had improved to become 16th. Progress was such that the next year this had become the 4th place overall, while she won a silver distance medal on the 500m.
After a year of absence at the big tournaments (though she did become East-German Champion that year[1]), she returned next year, better than ever before. At the World Sprint Championships of 1971 in Inzell Schleiermacher wins her first and only international title, becoming the successor of Lyudmila Titova from the Soviet Union.
World records
Over the course of her career, Schleiermacher skated one official world record:
Note that her best score on the sprint combination was skated before there was an official world record for that event. It was a world best performance at that time though.
Personal records
Schleiermacher at the DDR-Championships of 1969
To put these personal records in perspective, the column WR lists the official world records on the dates that Schleiermacher skated her personal records.
Budzisch, Margot with Klaus Huhn, Lothar Skorning and Günther Wonneberger. Chronik des DDR-Sports (in German). Berlin, Germany: Spotless-Verlag, 2000.
Eng, Trond and Marnix Koolhaas. National All Time & Encyclopedia Men/Ladies as at 1.7.1985, Issue No. 3: "German Democratic Republic" (bilingual Norwegian/English). Degernes, Norway: WSSSA-Skøytenytt, 1985.
Huhn, Klaus. Die DDR bei Olympia, 1956-1988 (in German). Berlin, Germany: Spotless-Verlag, 2001. ISBN3-933544-43-2.
Kluge, Volker. Das große Lexikon der DDR-Sportler: Die 1000 erfolgreichsten und populärsten Sportlerinnen und Sportler aus der DDR, ihre Erfolge und Biographien (in German). Berlin, Germany: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2004. ISBN3-89602-348-9.
Zickow, Alfred. 100 Jahre Deutsche Eisschnellauf Meisterschaften, 1891-1991. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Eisschnellaufes (in German). Berlin, Germany: DESG, 1991.
