![]() Hildrun Claus at the 1960 Olympics | ||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||
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Born | Dresden, Germany | 13 May 1939|||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||
Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) | |||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||
Event | Long jump | |||||||||||
Club | SC Dynamo Berlin | |||||||||||
Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||
Personal best | 6.48 m (1964) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Hildrun Laufer-Claus (née Claus; born 13 May 1939) is a former East German athlete. She competed in the long jump at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics and finished in third and seventh place, respectively.[1]
Claus was born in Dresden, but later moved to East Berlin. She won East German championships in the long jump in 1957–1962 and 1964, and set three world records (6.36 m and 6.40 m in 1960 and 6.42 m in 1961). She married Peter Laufer, a German Olympic pole vaulter, and at the 1964 Games competed as Hildrun Laufer-Claus. She has a degree of a landscape designer. In 1995 she was paralyzed as a result of a sports-related accident.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Hildrun Laufer-Claus Archived 7 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com.