Gisela Weiß

German swimmer

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Gisela Weiß

Gisela Weiß in 1962

Personal information

Born

(1943-10-16) 16 October 1943 (age 80)
Böhmisch Kamnitz, Germany (present-day Česká Kamenice, Czech Republic)

Height

1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)

Weight

61 kg (134 lb)

Sport

Swimming

Club

SC DHfK

Medal record

Representing Germany

Olympic Games
	1960 Rome	4×100 m freestyle relay

Gisela Weiß (later Engelhardt, born 16 October 1943) is a retired German swimmer. She competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in the 400 m and 4 × 100 m freestyle events and won a bronze medal in the relay.^[1] Between 1959 and 1961, she won three consecutive national titles in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay.^[2]^[3]

Weiß ended her competitive swimming career in 1963 and began studying medicine. In 1964, she married Karl-Heinz Engelhardt, a multiple East German champion in swimming.

After graduating, Weiß worked as a doctor, first at a sports school in Leipzig, and after the German unification in a rehabilitation clinic.

References

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^ Gisela Weiß Archived November 13, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com
^ Schwimmen – DDR – Meisterschaften Damen – Teil 1. sport-komplett.de
^ Volker Kluge (2009) Lexikon Sportler in der DDR. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-355-01759-6.