Helga Seidler

Personal information

Born

August 5, 1949

Medal record

Women's Athletics
Competitor for East Germany
Olympic Games
	1972 Munich	4 x 400 metres

Helga Seidler (née Fischer born August 5, 1949 in Oberneuschönberg) is a former East German athlete who mainly competed in the women's 400 metres event.

She competed for East Germany at the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany where she won the gold medal in the women's 4 x 400 meters with her team mates Dagmar Käsling, Rita Kühne and Monika Zehrt.

References

Sports Reference

Olympic champions in women's 4×400 m relay

1972: East Germany (Käsling, Kühne, Seidler, Zehrt)
1976: East Germany (Maletzki, Rohde, Streidt, Brehmer)
1980: Soviet Union (Prorochenko, Goyshchik, Zyuskova, Nazarova)
1984: United States (Leatherwood, S. Howard, Brisco-Hooks, Cheeseborough, Dixon, D. Howard)
1988: Soviet Union (Ledovskaya, Nazarova, Pinigina, Bryzhina, Dzhigalova)
1992: Unified Team (Ruzina, Dzhigalova, Nazarova, Bryzhina, Nurutdinova, Shmonina)
1996: United States (Stevens, Malone-Wallace, Graham, Miles, Wilson)
2000: United States (Miles Clark, Hennagan, Colander, Anderson)
2004: United States (Trotter, Henderson, Richards, Hennagan, Robinson)
2008: United States (Wineberg, Felix, Henderson, Richards, Hastings)
2012: United States (Trotter, Felix, McCorory, Richards-Ross, Baker, Dixon)

European Champions in Women's 400 m

1958–62: Maria Itkina (URS) 1966: Anna Chmelková (TCH) 1969: Nicole Duclos (FRA) 1971: Helga Seidler (GDR) 1974: Riitta Salin (FIN) 1978–86: Marita Koch (GDR) 1990: Grit Breuer (GDR) 1994: Marie-José Pérec (FRA) 1998: Grit Breuer (GER) 2002: Olesya Zykina (RUS) 2006: Vania Stambolova (BUL) 2010: Tatyana Firova (RUS) 2012: Moa Hjelmer (SWE) 2014: Libania Grenot (ITA)

European Champions in women's 4 × 400 metres relay

1969: Great Britain (Stirling, Lowe, Simpson, Board)
1971: East Germany (Kühne, Lohse, Seidler, Zehrt)
1974: East Germany (Rohde, Dietsch, Handt, Streidt)
1978: East Germany (Marquardt, Krug, Brehmer, Koch)
1982: East Germany (Siemon, Busch, Rübsam, Koch)
1986: East Germany
1990: East Germany (Derr, Hesselbarth, Müller, Breuer)
1994: France (Landre, Elien, Dorsile, Pérec)
1998: Germany (Feller, Rohländer, Rieger, Breuer)
2002: Germany (Ekpo-Umoh, Rockmeier, Marx, Breuer)
2006: Russia (Pospelova, Ivanova, Zaytseva, Veshkurova)
2010: Russia (Firova, Kapachinskaya, Krivoshapka, Ustalova)
2012: Ukraine (Olishevska, Zemlyak, Pyhyda, Lohvynenko)
2014: France (Gayot, Hurtis, Raharolahy, Gueï)

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