Siegel, Sigrun

Throughout her sports career, Sigrun has represented the Turbine Sports Club from Erfurt . In 1974, she won the pentathlon at the East German Indoor Championships, and a year later repeated her achievement outdoors ^[1] . At the 1974 European Championships, the German became only the fourth in this discipline, losing to the Soviet rival Zoe Spassovkhodskaya , who won five points in the total of five types of the bronze program ^[2] .

In 1975, Sigrun Thon married the cyclist Jürgen Siegl ^[1] . On May 19, 1976, the athlete, jumping 6.99 m in length, broke the world record set 10 days earlier by her compatriot Angela Voigt ^[3] .

As part of the GDR delegation, Siegle took part in the 1976 Olympics athletics tournament . The German took fourth place in the long jump competition, losing only 1 cm to bronze medalist Lydia Alfeeva . After 4 out of 5 types of pentathlon program, 8 leading participants separated less than a hundred points, and Siegle had only 7th amount. According to the results of the 200- meter race, Zigrun Siegl and her compatriot Kristine Lazer scored the highest number of points in the final table - 4745 each, however, in accordance with the current rules, the “gold” of the Games was awarded to Siegel, since she was stronger than her opponent in 3 out of 5 forms ^[1] . At the end of the Olympics, the athlete was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree, for the result shown. ^[4] .

After the 1976 Games, Siegle concentrated on long jump performances. In 1979, she became the champion of the GDR indoors in this discipline, and in 1980 she repeated this achievement outdoors. In 1979, having jumped 6.70 m , she became the European champion in the room , setting a record for such competitions. She also took part in the 1980 Moscow Olympics , where she showed only the 5th result in long jump competitions ^[1] .

At the end of her sports career, Siegl taught at one of Erfurt 's sports facilities. After the unification of Germany, she opened her photo shop ^[1] .