Sigrid Ulbricht

German long jumper

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Sigrid Ulbricht
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing East Germany
IAAF World Cup
	1981 Rome	Long jump
European Indoor Championships
	1981 Grenoble	Long jump

Sigrid Ulbricht (née Heimann; born 25 July 1958) is a German former track and field athlete who competed in the long jump for East Germany. She was the champion at the IAAF World Cup and European Cup in 1981 and represented her country at the Olympic Games in 1980.

Career

Born in Klötze, Bezirk Magdeburg, she took up athletics and became a member of the SC Magdeburg sports club.^[1] Ulbricht originally competed in the women's pentathlon and recorded a best score of 4303 points in 1977.^[2] She rose to prominence in the long jump in 1980 with a runner-up finish at the East German Athletics Championships behind Siegrun Siegl.^[3] That year she was selected for the Moscow Olympics and finished seventh in the final.^[1]

Ulbricht's best season came in 1981. She was runner-up nationally, this time to Heike Drechsler,^[3] but claimed a series of international medals. At the 1981 European Athletics Indoor Championships she was the silver medallist behind her West German rival Karin Hänel.^[4] She won both the semi-final and final stages of the 1981 European Cup with bests of 6.85 m (22 ft 5+1⁄2 in) then 6.86 m (22 ft 6 in).^[5]^[6] She achieved a lifetime best of 6.89 m (22 ft 7+1⁄4 in) in Jena that August before going on to win the 1981 IAAF World Cup in a meet record of 6.80 m (22 ft 3+1⁄2 in).^[7]

Ulbricht skipped the following two seasons and made her last appearances in 1984, coming second to Drechsler at the national championships and setting a season's best of 6.84 m (22 ft 5+1⁄4 in).^[1]^[2]^[3] She had a daughter Anne Ulbricht who later went on to represent Germany in handball.^[1]

Ulbricht was among the athletes subject to East German state doping, with her documents being revealed by Brigitte Berendonk.^[1]^[8]

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
1980	Olympic Games	Moscow, Soviet Union	7th	Long jump	6.71 m
1981	European Indoor Championships	Grenoble, France	2nd	Long jump	6.66 m
	European Cup	Zagreb, Yugoslavia	1st	Long jump	6.86 m
	World Cup	Rome, Italy	1st	Long jump	6.80 m

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Sigird Ulbricht. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2015-12-13.
^ ^a ^b Sigrid Ulbricht. Track and Field Brinkster. Retrieved on 2015-12-13.
^ ^a ^b ^c East German Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-12-13.
^ European Indoor Championships (Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-12-13.
^ European Cup Semi Final. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-12-13.
^ European Cup (Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-12-13.
^ IAAF World Cup. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-12-13.
^ Brigitte Berendonk: Doping. Von der Forschung zum Betrug. Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2, S. 182.