Emmy Albus
Emmy Albus at the 1936 Olympics | ||||||||||||
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Born | 13 December 1911 Wuppertal, Germany | |||||||||||
Died | 20 September 1995 (aged 83) Berlin, Germany | |||||||||||
Height | 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||
Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) | |||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||
Event(s) | 100 m, 200 m | |||||||||||
Club | Barmer TV 1846, Wuppertal | |||||||||||
Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||
Personal best(s) | 100 m – 11.9 (1936) 200 m – 26.0 (1935)[1][2] | |||||||||||
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Emmy Albus Liersch (13 December 1911 – 20 September 1995) was a German sprinter who won a gold medal in 4 × 100 m relay at the 1938 European Championships, the same year she set a world record in the 4 × 200 m relay.[1]
At the 1936 Berlin Olympics her 4 × 100 m team set a world record in the semifinals and led the final until a missed exchange in the final leg. Individually, she finished sixth in the 100 m event.[1]
At the 1938 European Athletics Championships, Albus finished sixth in the 100 metres in addition to the gold medal in the 4 × 100 metres relay.
In 1958 Albus married Walter Liersch, a fellow German sprinter.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Emmy Albus. sports-reference.com
- ^ Emmy Albus. trackfield.brinkster.net
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- 1938: Germany (Kohl, Krauß, Albus, Kühnel)
- 1946: Netherlands (v.d. Kade-Koudijs, Witziers-Timmer, Adema, Blankers-Koen)
- 1950: Great Britain (Hay, Desforges, Hall, Foulds)
- 1954: Soviet Union (Krepkina, Uliskina, Itkina, Turova)
- 1958: Soviet Union (Krepkina, Kepp, Polyakova, Maslovska)
- 1962: Poland(Ciepły, Sobotta, Szyroka, Piątkowska)
- 1966: Poland (Bednarek, Straszyńska, Kirszenstein, Kłobukowska)
- 1969: GDR (Höfer, Meissner, Podeswa, Vogt)
- 1971: FRG (Schittenhelm, Helten, Irrgang, Mickler)
- 1974: GDR (Maletzki, Stecher, Heinich, Eckert)
- 1978: Soviet Union (Anisimova, Maslakova, Kondratyeva, Storozhkova)
- 1982: GDR (Walther, Eckert, Rieger, Göhr)
- 1986: GDR (Gladisch, Rieger, Brestrich-Auerswald, Göhr)
- 1990: GDR (Möller, Krabbe, Behrendt, Günther)
- 1994: Germany (Paschke, Knoll, Zipp, Lichtenhagen)
- 1998: France (Benth, Bangué, Félix, Arron)
- 2002: France (Combe, Hurtis, Félix, Sidibé)
- 2006: Russia (Gushchina, Rusakova, Khabarova, Grigoryeva)
- 2010: Ukraine (Povh, Pohrebnyak, Ryemyen, Bryzhina)
- 2012: Germany (Günther, Cibis, Pinto, Sailer)
- 2014: Great Britain (Philip, Nelson, J. Williams, Henry)
- 2016: Netherlands (Samuel, Schippers, Van Schagen, Sedney)
- 2018: Great Britain (Philip, Lansiquot, B. Williams, Asher-Smith)
- 2022: Germany (Mayer, Haase, Lückenkemper, Burghardt)
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