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Ruth Fuchs
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German politician and athlete, Olympic champion (1946–2023)
Key facts
- Nationality
- Germany
- Born
- Ruth Gamm , ( 1946-12-14 ) 14 December 1946, Egeln , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany
- Died
- 20 September 2023 (2023-09-20) (aged 76), Jena , Thuringia , Germany
- Height
- 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
- Weight
- 71 kg (157 lb)
- Country
- East Germany
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event
- Javelin throw
- Club
- TuS Jena
- Personal best
- 69.96 m (1980)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ruth
- Family name
- Fuchs
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Egeln
- Place of death
- Jena
- Political party
- Party of Democratic Socialism
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- German
- Participant in
- 1999 German presidential election
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- German Democratic Republic
- Mass
- 71
- Image
- Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1990-0622-310, Dr. Ruth Fuchs.jpg
- Height
- 169
- Work location
- Erfurt
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- Commons category
- Ruth Fuchs
- date of birth
- 1946-12-14
- biography at the Bundestag of Germany URL
- webarchiv.bundestag.de/archive/2007/0206/mdb/mdb14/bio/F/fuchsru0.html
- sports discipline competed in
- javelin throw
- name in native language
- Ruth Fuchs
- catalog code
- 11000615
- nickname
- Banne
- date of death
- 2023-09-20
- start of work period
- 1967-00-00
- end of work period
- 1981-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Ruth Fuchs (née Gamm, later Hellmann, 14 December 1946 – 20 September 2023) was a German politician and athlete. Fuchs, representing East Germany, was the winner of the women's javelin at the 1972 (Munich) and 1976 (Montreal) Olympic Games. She set the world record for the javelin six times during the 1970s.
Her personal best throw was 69.96 metres with the old javelin type, achieved in April 1980 in Split. This ranks her seventh among German old-type-javelin throwers, behind Petra Felke (who held the world record), Antje Kempe, Silke Renk, Beate Koch, Karen Forkel, and Tanja Damaske.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ruth Fuchs” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.