German speed skater

Ruth Schleiermacher (later Ruth Budzisch-Schleiermacher, born 3 November 1949) is a former East German speedskater. She took part in eight international championships. Twice at the European Championships (1971 and 1972), thrice at the World Allround Championships (1967, 1968 and 1969), once at the World Sprint Championships (1971) and two times at the Winter Olympics, 1968 and 1972.

Contents

• 1 Career
• 2 World records
• 3 Personal records
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Career

Schleiermacher was born in Wunsiedel, Bavaria. At her international debut during the Wch Allround of 1967 in Deventer she finished 27th. A year later, during the op het Wch Allround of 1968, she had improved to become 16th. Progress was such that the next year this had become the 4th place overall, while she won a silver distance medal on the 500m. After a year of absence at the big tournaments (though she did become East-German Champion that year), she returned next year, better than ever before. At the World Sprint Championships of 1971 in Inzell Schleiermacher wins her first and only international *le, becoming the successor of Lyudmila *ova from the Soviet Union.

World records

Over the course of her career, Schleiermacher skated one official world record:

Note that her best score on the sprint combination was skated before there was an official world record for that event. It was a world best performance at that time though.

Personal records

Schleiermacher at the DDR-Championships of 1969

To put these personal records in perspective, the column WR lists the official world records on the dates that Schleiermacher skated her personal records.

References

Notes

Bibliography

• Budzisch, Margot with Klaus Huhn, Lothar Skorning and Günther Wonneberger. Chronik des DDR-Sports (in German). Berlin, Germany: Spotless-Verlag, 2000.
• Eng, Trond and Marnix Koolhaas. National All Time & Encyclopedia Men/Ladies as at 1.7.1985, Issue No. 3: "German Democratic Republic" (bilingual Norwegian/English). Degernes, Norway: WSSSA-Skøytenytt, 1985.
• Huhn, Klaus. Die DDR bei Olympia, 1956-1988 (in German). Berlin, Germany: Spotless-Verlag, 2001. ISBN:3-933544-43-2.
• Kluge, Volker. Das große Lexikon der DDR-Sportler: Die 1000 erfolgreichsten und populärsten Sportlerinnen und Sportler aus der DDR, ihre Erfolge und Biographien (in German). Berlin, Germany: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2004. ISBN:3-89602-348-9.
• Zickow, Alfred. 100 Jahre Deutsche Eisschnellauf Meisterschaften, 1891-1991. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Eisschnellaufes (in German). Berlin, Germany: DESG, 1991.

External links

• Ruth Schleiermacher at SpeedSkatingStats.com
• Statistiek bij Speedskatingnews
• www.sports-reference.com