Sabine Günther
East German sprinter
Günther (right) with Silke Gladisch in 1986
Sabine Günther (née Rieger ; born 6 November 1963 in Jena ) is a former East German sprinter who competed mainly in the 200 metres .
Biography
Günther won the 200 metres gold medal at the 1981 European Junior Championships . At the 1982 European Championships , she won the bronze medal in the 200 metres and a gold medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay together with teammates Gesine Walther , Bärbel Wöckel and Marlies Göhr . The team finished in 42.19 seconds with Günther running the third leg.[ 1]
The relay team of Günther (Silke Gladisch , Marlies Göhr and Ingrid Auerswald ) set a world record of 41.37 seconds at the 1985 IAAF World Cup event in Canberra . The world record stood until 2012.[ 2]
At the 1986 European Championships , Günther only placed seventh in the individual distance, but won another gold medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay together with Silke Gladisch, Ingrid Auerswald and Marlies Göhr. Their time was 41.84 seconds, and Günther ran the second leg.[ 1] At the 1990 European Championships , Günther again placed seventh in the individual distance, but won yet another gold medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay , this time with Silke Möller (formerly Gladisch), Katrin Krabbe and Kerstin Behrendt . Günther ran the last leg,[ 1] crossing the finish line to clock in 41.68 seconds.
With united Germany, Günther helped finish fifth at the 1992 Olympic Games with a new relay team composed of Andrea Philipp , Silke Knoll , Andrea Thomas and Sabine Günther.
Günther represented the sports club SC Motor Jena and won silver medals at the East German championships in 1986 (100 m)[ 3] and 1990 (200 m).[ 4] Her personal best times were 11.19 in the 100 metres, achieved in September 1985 in East Berlin ,[ 5] and 22.37 in the 200 metres, achieved in June 1982 in Cottbus .[ 6]
Günther is 1.70 metres tall; during her active career she weighed 60 kg.
References
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 )
1977: Europe (Possekel , Lynch , Richter , Lannaman )
1979: Europe (Haglund , Réga , Richter , Hunte )
1981: East Germany (Siemon , Wöckel , Walther , Göhr )
1985: East Germany (Gladisch , Rieger , Auerswald , Göhr )
1989: East Germany (Behrendt , Günther , Möller , Oschkenat )
1992: Asia (Gao , Tian , Chen , Xiao )
1994: Africa (Idehen , Tombiri , Opara-Thompson , Onyali )
1998: United States (Taplin , Gaines , Miller , Guidry )
2002: Americas (Lawrence , Campbell , McDonald , Ferguson )
2006: Americas (Bailey , Ferguson-McKenzie , Mothersille , Simpson )
2010: Americas (Mothersille , Ferguson-McKenzie , Solomon , Baptiste )
2014: Americas (Bartoletta , Ahye , Henry-Robinson , Campbell-Brown )
2018: Americas (Tenorio , Miller-Uibo , Prandini , Rosa )