Susanne Beyer ( Helm, born 24 June 1961) is a retired
East German
East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on 3 October 1990. Until 1989, it was generally vie ...
high jump
The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...
er. She won a bronze medal at the
1987 World Championships.
Biography
Born Susanne Helm in
Suhl
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, she finished seventh at the
1983 World Championships and fourth at the
1986 European Championships. She began the 1987 season well with a win at the
Hochsprung mit Musik
The ''Hochsprung mit Musik'' () is an annual indoor high jump meeting which takes place in February in Arnstadt, Germany.
First held in 1977, the meeting began as a competition between mainly East German athletes. Following the Re-unification of ...
meeting, taking the title with a leap of 2.00 m. She maintained her form indoors and won the silver medal at the
1987 World Indoor Championships with a lifetime best of 2.02 metres. Her season peaked with a bronze medal at the
1987 World Championships, scoring a lifetime outdoor best of 1.99 metres. At the European Indoor Championships she won the silver in
1985
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and a bronze in
1987
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She represented the sports team
SC Dynamo Berlin
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and became East German champion in 1983, 1985 and 1987.
Her outdoor personal best jump of 1.99 metres ranks her eighth among German high jumpers, behind
Ariane Friedrich
Ariane Friedrich (born Tempel; 10 January 1984 in Nordhausen) is a German high jumper. She won the silver medal at the 2009 World Championships and represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics. She is the German ou ...
(2.06),
Heike Henkel
Heike Henkel (; born Heike Redetzky; 5 May 1964) is a German former athlete competing in high jump. She was Olympic, World and European champion. She won the high jump gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
Biography
H ...
(2.05),
Ulrike Meyfarth
Ulrike Nasse-Meyfarth (; born 4 May 1956) is a German former high jumper. She won the Olympic Games, Olympic title twice, in 1972 and 1984. She is the youngest Olympic champion ever in women's high jump, and at the time of her 1984 triumph, she ...
(2.03),
Heike Balck (2.01),
Alina Astafei
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(2.01),
Rosemarie Ackermann (2.00) and
Daniela Rath (2.00) and joint with
Kerstin Brandt.
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Her indoor best of 2.02 m, ranks her fourth on the German all-time indoor list, behind Henkel (2.07), Friedrich (2.05) and Astafei (2.04).
International competitions
See also
* Female two metres club
References
External links
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1961 births
Living people
East German female high jumpers
World Athletics Championships medalists
World Athletics Championships athletes for East Germany
World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists
Competitors at the 1986 Goodwill Games
Sportspeople from Suhl
Athletes from Thuringia
Sportspeople from Bezirk Suhl
SC Dynamo Berlin athletes
Competitors at the 1984 Friendship Games
East German Athletics Championships winners
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