Ingrid Bruckert (born 19 November 1952), also known as Ingrid Bruckert-Redmer, is a retired German

field hockey Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...

player. Bruckert played for

Eintracht Braunschweig Braunschweiger Turn- und Sportverein Eintracht von 1895 e.V., commonly known as Eintracht Braunschweig () or BTSV (), is a German football and sports club based in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony. They compete in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier o ...

. With her club, she won seven German championship titles. She also played 110 games in total for the German national team. With West Germany, Bruckert won the 1976 and 1981 Women's Hockey World Cups. She was also called up to the West German squad for the

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. However, due to the

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, the West German team ultimately did not enter the tournament. In 1977, Bruckert was awarded the

Silbernes Lorbeerblatt Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (, ), the highest sports award in Germany, was endowed on 23 June 1950 by the German President Theodor Heuss. It is awarded to athletes and teams of exemplary character that have won medals at Olympic and Paralympic Games ...

. In 1988, she was inducted into the

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of the Lower Saxon Institute of Sports History.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bruckert, Ingrid 1952 births Living people German female field hockey players Sportspeople from Braunschweig Field hockey players from Lower Saxony Recipients of the Silver Laurel Leaf 20th-century German sportswomen