Bärbel Podeswa

Bärbel Podeswa (née Weidlich; born 8 December 1946 in Naumburg) is a retired East German hurdler.

She won the silver medal in 50 m hurdles at the 1968 European Indoor Games, behind Karin Balzer. At the 1969 European Championships she won a silver medal in the 100 m hurdles as well as a gold medal in 4x100 metres relay, together with teammates Renate Meißner, Regina Höfer and Petra Vogt.

She competed for the club SC Chemie Halle during her active career.

European Champions in women's 4 × 100 metres relay

1938: Germany (Kohl, Krauß, Albus, Kühnel)
1946: Netherlands (van der 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, Maslovskaya)
1962: Poland (Ciepły, Sobotta, Szyroka, Piątkowska)
1966: Poland (Bednarek, Straszynska, Kirszenstein, Kłobukowska)
1969: East Germany (Höfer, Meissner, Podeswa, Vogt)
1971: West Germany (Schittenhelm, Helten, Irrgang, Mickler)
1974: East Germany (Maletzki, Stecher, Heinich, Eckert)
1978: Soviet Union (Anisimova, Maslakova, Kondratyeva, Storozhkova)
1982: East Germany (Walther, Eckert, Rieger, Göhr)
1986: East Germany (Gladisch, Rieger, Brestrich-Auerswald, Göhr)
1990: East Germany (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, Bryzghina)
2012: Germany (Günther, Cibis, Pinto, Sailer)
2014: Great Britain (Philip, Nelson, Williams, Henry)

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