Martina Steuk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Martina Steuk

German athletics competitor

Date of Birth: 11-Nov-1959

Place of Birth: Berlin

Profession: athletics competitor

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Martina Steuk

  • Martina Steuk (née Kämpfert; born 11 November 1959) is a German former track and field athlete who represented East Germany.
  • She competed in the 800 metres and occasionally the 400 metres. Her first success came at the 1977 European Athletics Junior Championships, where she won the 800 m title.
  • At twenty years old, reached the final at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and placed fourth in a lifetime best time of 1:56.21 behind a Soviet trio of Nadezhda Olizarenko, Olga Mineyeva and Tatyana Providokhina that broke the world record.
  • A successful 1981 season followed, which included a win at the 1981 European Cup, and at the 1981 IAAF World Cup she won an 800 m silver behind Lyudmila Veselkova and a gold with the East German 4 × 400 metres relay team.
  • She ranked second in the world that year for the 800 m behind Vesselkova with a time of 1:57.16.
  • That success continued into 1982 with a silver medal at the 1982 European Athletics Indoor Championships, finishing second only to Romania's Doina Melinte.
  • She was top of the world indoor rankings that season with 1:59.24 minutes.She was a three-time national champion, winning the 800 m at the East German Athletics Championships in 1981 before taking a national indoor and outdoor double in 1982.She holds one of the fastest times for the 1000 metres at 2:30.85 minutes.
  • This was the second fastest ever when it was set in 1980, behind Soviet runner Tatyana Providokhina, though it remained the fastest recorded electronically recorded time for ten years.
  • It remains the best mark by an under-23 athlete and she also holds the under-23 best for the 600 metres event with 1:24.56 minutes.Steuk was born in Berlin and was a member of her local club Berliner TSC.
  • She married East German hammer thrower Roland Steuk in 1991.
  • The two subsequently divorced.
  • She was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit for her athletic feats in 1982.

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