Irmgard Praetz (9 August 1920 – 7 November 2008) was a German

track and field Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...

athlete who competed mainly in the

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

. She was the gold medallist in that event at the

1938 European Athletics Championships The 2nd European Athletics Championships was a continental athletics competition for European athletes which was held in two places in 1938. The men's event took place in Paris, France between 3–5 September while the women's events were in Vie ...

. She achieved her career best mark of at the competition, which ranked her third globally for the year. Praetz was born in Salzwedel and died in Garching bei München. She was the 1938 long jump champion at the German Athletics Championships and was runner-up in the discipline in 1940. After

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

she won a national title in the

women's pentathlon The pentathlon or women's pentathlon is a combined track and field event in which each woman competes in five separate events over one day (formerly two days). The distance or time for each event is converted to points via scoring tables, with t ...

. She later married and took the name Römer.Peter Matthews: Athletics 2009. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2009, . Retrieved on 2015-12-28.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Praetz, Irmgard 1920 births 2008 deaths People from Salzwedel Sportspeople from the Province of Saxony German female long jumpers Athletes from Saxony-Anhalt European Athletics Championships medalists 20th-century German sportswomen

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