Birgit Heinecke
| Olympic medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Women's handball | ||
| Bronze medal – third place | 1980 Moscow | Team |
| World Championship | ||
| Gold medal – first place | 1978 Czechoslovakia | |
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Birgit Heinecke (née Richter, born 10 April 1957) is a former East German handball player who is a world champion from the 1978 World Championship.[1] She also competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics.
In 1980 she won the bronze medal with the East German team. She played one match and scored three goals.
In total she played 57 games for the East German national team. In 1980 she was awarded the DDR Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.[2]
At club level she played for SC Magdeburg.
Post playing career
[edit | edit source]After her playing days she work as a coach at the club. Later she worked for the Magdeburg based newspaper Volksstimme in the marketing department.[3] From 2004 to 2009 she was the Marketing Manager at she newspaper Ostsee-Zeitung in Rostock.[4] After wards she worked for Leipziger Volkszeitung.
External links
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- 1957 births
- Living people
- German female handball players
- Handball players at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic handball players for East Germany
- Olympic bronze medalists for East Germany
- Olympic medalists in handball
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
- East German female handball players
- Sportspeople from Magdeburg
- Handball players from Saxony-Anhalt
- Sportspeople from Bezirk Magdeburg
- Handball World Champions
- German handball Olympic medalist stubs