Sabine Braun
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| Olympic medal record | |||
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| Women's athletics | |||
| Bronze | Barcelona 1992 | Heptathlon | |
Sabine Braun (born June 19, 1965 in Essen) is a German Olympic athlete in track and field. Because she had talents in several disciplines, Sabine Braun competed in the heptathlon and had a number of successes. Her international sport career began in August of 1982 with the Junior European championship where she won second place.
In 1984 she placed sixth at the XXIII Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles, California. At the XXV Olympic Summer Games in Barcelona, Spain, she won the bronze medal behind Jackie Joyner-Kersee from the U.S. who won the gold and Irina Belova from Russia who won the silver. She scored 6,649 points, her results in the competition were 13.25s - 1.94m - 24.27s - 6.02m - 51.12m - 2:14.35 Min.
At the World championships she won gold in 1991 and 1997 and in 1993 she won silver.
At the European championships she twice won gold, in 1990 and then again in 1994, as well as a silver medal in the 2002 competition.
She was the 1997 world champion in the pentathlon, German champion in 1989, and four-time winner at the competition in Ratingen and Götzis.
Sabine Braun represented LAV Düsseldorf, and then in 1987 for LG Bayer Leverkusen and then for TV Wattenscheid. When she was active she was 1.74m tall and weighed 62kg. In the fall of 2002 she ended her athletic career.
This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.
