Katharina Rensch (later Schirmer, born 7 October 1964) is a German retired gymnast. She competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a bronze medal in the team competition. Her best individual result was sixth place in the vault.[1] She won another bronze medal with the East German team at the 1979 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.[2]
| Katharina Rensch | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Rensch in 1980 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 October 1964 East Berlin, East Germany | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.59 m (5 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 45 kg (99 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Berliner TSC | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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References
edit- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Katharina Rensch". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- ^ "Turnen – Weltmeisterschaften Damen". sport-komplett.de (in German).
External links
edit- Katharina Rensch (GDR) at Gymn-Forum.net
- Katharina Rensch at Olympics.com
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