Hildegard Falck, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Hildegard Falck

German middle distance runner

Date of Birth: 08-Jun-1949

Place of Birth: Bad Münder am Deister, Lower Saxony, Germany

Profession: athletics competitor, middle-distance runner

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Hildegard Falck (née Janze on 8 June 1949) is a retired West German runner.
At the 1972 Olympics she won a gold medal in the 800 m and a bronze medal in the 4 × 400 m relay with West German team.
In the 800 m final she came only 0.1 seconds ahead of Nijole Sabaite and Gunhild Hoffmeister. On 11 July 1971 Falck ran the 800 m in 1:58.5 minutes in Stuttgart, improving the world record of Vera Nikolic by two seconds.
She was the first woman to clock a time under two minutes if the unratified marks of Sin Kim Dan are discounted.
Her record stood until 1973.Before turning to athletics, Falck studied to become a secondary school teacher and trained in handball and swimming.
In 1971, besides her 800 m world record, she won a gold medal in the 800 m at the European Indoor Championships and a silver in the 4 × 400 m relay at European Championships; she also helped Ellen Tittel, Sylvia Schenk and Christa Merten to break the 4 × 800 m world record. Domestically she won the 800 m titles in 1970 and 1971 (both indoor and outdoor), and in 1973 outdoor.
In 1972, she was awarded the Silver Bay Leaf of the German Track & Field Association. Falck was coached by her husband Rolf Falck.
They later divorced, and she married Dr.
Klaus Kimmich, a pentathlete with whom she had two children.