Erika Zuchold
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Country represented | East Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 19 March 1947 (1947-03-19) Lucka, Soviet occupation zone, Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 22 August 2015 (2015-08-23) (aged 68) Asunción, Paraguay | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 1972 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Erika Zuchold (née Barth; 19 March 1947 – 22 August 2015) was an East German gymnast who competed at the European, World, and Olympic level from the mid-1960s to early 1970s.[1][2]
She and Karin Janz were the two most significant (in terms of medals won at major championships) female German gymnasts of the era, leading the East German team to a bronze medal at the 1968 Olympics and a silver medal at the 1972 Olympics.
The highlight of Zuchold's career came at the 1970 World Championships, where she placed second in the individual all-around behind the Soviet Ludmilla Tourischeva and returned to win gold on both vault and balance beam in event finals.[2]
Zuchold is credited as being the first woman to perform a back handspring on balance beam in World or Olympic competition (at the 1966 World Championships), as well as one of the first two women, along with Věra Čáslavská at the 1968 Olympics, to complete a front handspring on balance beam.[3] She also had a transition element named after her on uneven bars.[2]
In her post-gymnastics career, she was a trapeze artist, a curator, an educator, and an abstract painter. In 2005, she was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.[2]
She was married to the cyclist Dieter Zuchold (1937–2014).[2]
See also
References
- ^ LVZ-Online. "Leipziger Turnerin Erika Zuchold ist tot – Beerdigung in Paraguay". lvz.de. Archived from the original on 2015-09-02. Retrieved 2015-08-28.
- ^ a b c d e Turner, Amanda (27 August 2015). "Five-Time Olympic Medalist Erika Zuchold Dies at 68". International Gymnast Magazine. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
- ^ Poe, Debbie. "Gymn Forum: Innovators in Gymnastics". Gymn Forum.
External links
- Official website (in German and English)
- Erika Zuchold at the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
- Erika Zuchold at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Erika Zuchold at Olympics.com
- Erika Zuchold at Olympedia
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- 1938: Marta Majowska (POL)
1987 Matylda Pálfyová (TCH) - 1950: Helena Rakoczy (POL)
- 1954: Ann-Sofi Pettersson (SWE)
1987 Tamara Manina (URS) - 1958: Larisa Latynina (URS)
- 1962: Věra Čáslavská (TCH)
- 1966: Věra Čáslavská (TCH)
- 1970: Erika Zuchold (DDR)
- 1974: Olga Korbut (URS)
- 1978: Nellie Kim (URS)
- 1979: Dumitrița Turner (ROM)
- 1981: Maxi Gnauck (DDR)
- 1983: Boriana Stoyanova (BGR)
- 1985: Yelena Shushunova (URS)
- 1987: Yelena Shushunova (URS)
- 1989: Olesya Dudnik (URS)
- 1991: Lavinia Miloșovici (ROM)
- 1992: Henrietta Ónodi (HUN)
- 1993: Elena Piskun (BLR)
- 1994: Gina Gogean (ROM)
- 1995: Simona Amânar (ROM)
- 1996: Gina Gogean (ROM)
- 1997: Simona Amânar (ROM)
- 1999: Elena Zamolodchikova (RUS)
- 2001: Svetlana Khorkina (RUS)
- 2002: Elena Zamolodchikova (RUS)
- 2003: Oksana Chusovitina (UZB)
- 2005: Cheng Fei (CHN)
- 2006: Cheng Fei (CHN)
- 2007: Cheng Fei (CHN)
- 2009: Kayla Williams (USA)
- 2010: Alicia Sacramone (USA)
- 2011: McKayla Maroney (USA)
- 2013: McKayla Maroney (USA)
- 2014: Hong Un-jong (PRK)
- 2015: Maria Paseka (RUS)
- 2017: Maria Paseka (RUS)
- 2018: Simone Biles (USA)
- 2019: Simone Biles (USA)
- 2021: Rebeca Andrade (BRA)
- 2022: Jade Carey (USA)
- 2023: Rebeca Andrade (BRA)