Sport Athletics Role Olympic athlete Event(s) 400 m Height 1.68 m | Personal best(s) 51.08 (1972) Weight 56 kg Name Monika Zehrt Club SC Dynamo Berlin | |
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Olympic medals Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metres Similar People Helga Seidler, Hildegard Falck, Inge Bodding, Madeline Manning | ||
ATLETICA 1972 RECORD MONDIALE 400 DONNE MONIKA ZEHRT
Monika Zehrt (born 29 September 1952) is a retired East German sprinter who specialized in the 400 m. At the 1972 Olympics she won gold medals in the individual 400 m and 4 × 400 m relay, setting an Olympic and a world record, respectively. Zehrt also won relay golds at the 1971 European Championships and the 1970 and 1973 European Cup. During her career she set one world record in the 400 m and four in the 4 × 400 m. After retiring in 1974, she earned a degree in external trade and a leading position at a furniture company. She married, but then divorced Jochen Landgraf, a 400 m hurdler.
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