Birte Bruhns (born 4 November 1970) is a retired

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runner who specialized in the

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. She started her career at the SC Empor Rostock, after the

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she moved to Cologne where she represented the sports club

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, and became German champion in 1993. Her personal best time was 1:59.17 minutes, achieved in July 1988 in

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.World women's all-time best 800m (last updated 2001)
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* 1970 births Living people German female middle-distance runners SC Empor Rostock athletes ASV Köln athletes 20th-century German women East German female middle-distance runners {{Germany-middledistance-athletics-bio-stub