Heide Rosendahl

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Olympic medal record
Women’s Athletics
Gold	1972 Munich	Long Jump
Gold	1972 Munich	4 x 100m
Silver	1972 Munich	Pentathlon

Heidemarie Ecker-Rosendahl (born 14 February 1947 in Hückeswagen) is a retired German athlete who competed mainly in the pentathlon and long jump. She set a world record of 6.84 m in long jump at Turin in 1970 which stood for six years.

She won the long jump gold medal in in the 1972 Munich Olympics with a leap of 6.78m, one centimetre ahead of Diana Yorgova of Bulgaria. Two days later in a thrilling pentathlon, he finished second to Mary Peters of Britain.

After the three events on the first day Rosendahl was in the fifth place, 301 points behind Peters. On the second day, she jumped 6.83 m in the longjump (one cm short of the record) and ran the 200m in 22.96 seconds. She finished with 4791 points, 16 points better than Burglinde Pollak's world record, but 10 points behind Peters. To further prove her versatility, she helped the West German 4 x 100 m team with Christiane Krause, Ingrid Mickler-Becker and Annegret Richter to the gold medal and a world record.

Olympic champions in women's long jump
1948: Olga Gyarmati | 1952: Yvette Williams | 1956: Elżbieta Krzesińska | 1960: Vera Krepkina | 1964: Mary Rand | 1968: Viorica Viscopoleanu | 1972: Heide Rosendahl | 1976: Angela Voigt | 1980: Tatyana Kolpakova | 1984: Anişoara Cuşmir-Stanciu | 1988: Jackie Joyner-Kersee | 1992: Heike Drechsler | 1996: Chioma Ajunwa | 2000: Heike Drechsler | 2004: Tatyana Lebedeva