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German athlete
Ingrid Becker
Becker at the 1968 Olympics
Born 26 September 1942 (1942-09-26 ) (age 81)Geseke , North Rhine-Westphalia , Nazi Germany Height 177 cm (5 ft 10 in) Weight 66 kg (146 lb) Sport Athletics Event Pentathlon Club LG Geseke USC Mainz Personal best(s) 100 m – 11.2 (1971) 200 m – 23.3 (1970) 100 mH – 13.5 (1970) HJ – 1.71 m (1961) LJ – 6.76 m (1971) Pentathlon – 5098 (1968)[ 1] [ 2]
Ingrid Becker on a stamp of Ajman
Ingrid Mickler-Becker (German pronunciation: [ˈɪŋɡʁɪt ˈmɪklɐ ˈbɛkɐ] ⓘ ; née Becker on 26 September 1942) is a former West German athlete . Her name is sometimes written incorrectly as Ingrid Mickler in result lists. Her international career lasted from 1960 to 1972. She won the pentathlon gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 4×100 m relay gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics . Becker was the first German woman[failed verification ] to clear 1.70 m in high jump (1960) and 6.50 m in the long jump (1967).[ 1]
At the 1969 European Athletics Championships she won a silver medal as a member of the 4×100 metre relay team. In 1970 she won the European Cup Final in 100 metres, defeating the favourite Renate Stecher (GDR). Next year she won two European titles, in the long jump and 4×100 m relay, and placed second in the 100 meters.[ 1]
Becker was elected German Sportswoman of the Year in 1968 and 1971, and received the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (Silver Bay Leaf) in 1968. In 1969 she was awarded the Rudolf Harbig Memorial Award, and then for many years worked for the German Sports Federation. In 1982–84 and 1986–90 she was vice president of the Federal Panel of Women Sports of the German Athletics Association .[ 1]
In 1990 she became secretary of state in Rhineland-Palatinate , but lost this position when her party, the CDU , lost the election in 1991. Afterwards she worked for a German-Swiss consultancy company. In 2005, she was awarded the "Goldene Sportpyramide" (Golden Sport Pyramid) from the Deutsche Sporthilfe (German Sports Aid), and in 2006 she was inducted into the Germany's Sports Hall of Fame . She is a member of the German National Olympic Committee .[ 1]
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1928 : Bobbie Rosenfeld , Ethel Smith , Jane Bell , Myrtle Cook (CAN )
1932 : Mary Carew , Evelyn Furtsch , Annette Rogers , Wilhelmina von Bremen (USA )
1936 : Harriet Bland , Annette Rogers , Betty Robinson , Helen Stephens (USA )
1948 : Xenia Stad-de Jong , Netti Witziers-Timmer , Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs , Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED )
1952 : Mae Faggs , Barbara Jones , Janet Moreau , Catherine Hardy (USA )
1956 : Shirley Barbara de la Hunty , Norma Croker , Fleur Mellor , Betty Cuthbert (AUS )
1960 : Martha Hudson , Lucinda Williams , Barbara Jones , Wilma Rudolph (USA )
1964 : Teresa Ciepły , Irena Kirszenstein , Halina Górecka , Ewa Kłobukowska (POL )
1968 : Barbara Ferrell , Margaret Bailes , Mildrette Netter , Wyomia Tyus (USA )
1972 : Christiane Krause , Ingrid Mickler , Annegret Richter , Heide Rosendahl (FRG )
1976 : Marlies Göhr , Renate Stecher , Carla Bodendorf , Bärbel Wöckel (GDR )
1980 : Romy Müller , Bärbel Wöckel , Ingrid Auerswald , Marlies Göhr (GDR )
1984 : Alice Brown , Jeanette Bolden , Chandra Cheeseborough , Evelyn Ashford (USA )
1988 : Alice Brown , Sheila Echols , Florence Griffith Joyner , Evelyn Ashford , Dannette Young (USA )
1992 : Evelyn Ashford , Esther Jones , Carlette Guidry , Gwen Torrence , Michelle Finn (USA )
1996 : Gail Devers , Inger Miller , Chryste Gaines , Gwen Torrence , Carlette Guidry (USA )
2000 : Savatheda Fynes , Chandra Sturrup , Pauline Davis-Thompson , Debbie Ferguson , Eldece Lewis (BAH )
2004 : Tayna Lawrence , Sherone Simpson , Aleen Bailey , Veronica Campbell , Beverly McDonald (JAM )
2008 : Olivia Borlée , Hanna Mariën , Élodie Ouédraogo , Kim Gevaert (BEL )
2012 : Tianna Madison , Allyson Felix , Bianca Knight , Carmelita Jeter , Jeneba Tarmoh , Lauryn Williams (USA )
2016 : Tianna Bartoletta , Allyson Felix , Tori Bowie , English Gardner , Morolake Akinosun (USA )
2020 : Briana Williams , Elaine Thompson-Herah , Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce , Shericka Jackson , Natasha Morrison , Remona Burchell (JAM )
2024 : Melissa Jefferson , Twanisha Terry , Gabrielle Thomas , Sha'Carri Richardson (USA )
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 )
2024 : Great Britain (Asher-Smith , Henry , Hunt , Neita )
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