Valeriy brumel biography of michael

German former high jumper

Rosemarie "Rosi" Ackermann (née Witschas; born 4 April 1952) is a German former high jumper, Olympic champion and multiple world record holder.

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Brumel was only 18 when he won the Olympic silver medal at Rome , clearing the same height as team-mate Robert Shavlakadze but having to.

The Olympic champion and multiple world record holder, he is regarded as one of the greatest athletes ever to compete in the high jump.

He was my mentor during my youth with the High Jump,taught me the Straddle,which he is doing here.

Michael Glazebrook (GBR), London, March 22, m (6 ft 0 in) Valeriy Brumel (URS), Moscow, 18 June m (7 ft 4 in).

In Berlin on 26 August 1977, she became the first female high jumper to clear a height of two metres.^[1]

Biography

She was born in Lohsa, Saxony. As Rosemarie Witschas, she represented East Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, finishing seventh behind Ulrike Meyfarth.^[2]

In 1974, at the European Championships in Rome, she won her first international title, setting a new world record of 1.95m.

Later that year, she married handball player Manfred Ackermann, and assumed his surname.^{[citation needed]} Two years later, when she won the gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada.^[3]

On 26 August, 1977, she became the first woman to clear 2.00 metres.

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In 1978, she lost her European title to It