Bärbel Wöckel

Medal record
Bärbel Wöckel
Women's Athletics
Competitor for  East Germany
Olympic Games
Gold	1976 Montreal	200 m
Gold	1976 Montreal	4x100 m relay
Gold	1980 Moscow	200 m
Gold	1980 Moscow	4x100 m relay

Bärbel Wöckel, née Eckert (born 21 March 1955 in Leipzig) is a retired East German sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres.

She won four Olympic gold medals, two each in the 1976 and 1980 Olympics. In each of those years, Wöckel placed first in the 200 metres and 4 x 100 metres races.

She competed for the club SC Motor Jena during her active career.

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References

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This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.

Sporting positions
Preceded by Renate Stecher	Women's 200 m Best Year Performance 1976	Succeeded by Irena Szewińska
Preceded by Marita Koch	Women's 200 m Best Year Performance 1980	Succeeded by Evelyn Ashford

Olympic Champions in Women's 200 m 1948: Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED) 1952: Marjorie Jackson (AUS) 1956: Betty Cuthbert (AUS) 1960: Wilma Rudolph (USA) 1964: Edith McGuire (USA) 1968: Irena Szewińska (POL) 1972: Renate Stecher (GDR) 1976: Bärbel Eckert (GDR) 1980: Bärbel Eckert (GDR) 1984: Valerie Brisco-Hooks (USA) 1988: Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) 1992: Gwen Torrence (USA) 1996: Marie-José Pérec (FRA) 2000: Pauline Davis-Thompson (BAH) 2004: Veronica Campbell (JAM) 2008: Veronica Campbell-Brown (JAM)

Olympic Champions in Women's 4×100 m relay 1928: Canada (Rosenfeld, Smith, Bell, Cook) 1932: United States (Carew, Furtsch, Rogers, von Bremen) 1936: United States (Bland, Rogers, Robinson, Stephens) 1948: Netherlands (Stad-de Jong, Witziers-Timmer, van der Kade-Koudijs, Blankers-Koen) 1952: United States (Faggs, Jones, Moreau, Hardy) 1956: Australia (Strickland de la Hunty, Croker, Mellor, Cuthbert) 1960: United States (Hudson, Williams, Jones, Rudolph) 1964: Poland (Ciepły, Szewińska, Górecka, Kłobukowska) 1968: United States (Ferrell, Bailes, Netter, Tyus) 1972: West Germany (Krause, Mickler, Richter, Rosendahl) 1976: East Germany (Göhr, Stecher, Bodendorf, Wöckel) 1980: East Germany (Müller, Wöckel, Auerswald, Göhr) 1984: United States (Brown, Bolden, Cheeseborough, Ashford) 1988: United States (Brown, Echols, Griffith-Joyner, Ashford) 1992: United States (Ashford, Jones, Guidry, Torrence, Finn) 1996: United States (Devers, Miller, Gaines, Torrence, Guidry) 2000: Bahamas (Fynes, Sturrup, Davis-Thompson, Ferguson, Lewis) 2004: Jamaica (Lawrence, Simpson, Bailey, Campbell, McDonald) 2008: Russia (Polyakova, Fedoriva, Gushchina, Chermoshanskaya)

European Champions in Women's 200 m 1938: Stanisława Walasiewicz (POL) 1946: Yevgeniya Sechenova (URS) 1950: Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED) 1954: Maria Itkina (URS) 1958: Barbara Janiszewska (POL) 1962: Jutta Heine (FRG) 1966: Irena Szewińska (POL) 1969: Petra Vogt (GDR) 1971: Renate Stecher (GDR) 1974: Irena Szewińska (POL) 1978: Lyudmila Kondratyeva (URS) 1982: Bärbel Wöckel (GDR) 1986: Heike Drechsler (GDR) 1990: Katrin Krabbe (GDR) 1994: Irina Privalova (RUS) 1998: Irina Privalova (RUS) 2002: Muriel Hurtis (FRA) 2006: Kim Gevaert (BEL) 2010: Myriam Soumaré (FRA)

European Champions in Women's 4 x 100 m relay 1938: Germany (Kohl, Krauß, Albus, Kühnel) 1946: Netherlands (van der Kade-Koudijs, Witziers-Timmer, Adema, Blankers-Koen) 1950: Great Britain (Hay, Desforges, Hall, Foulds) 1954: Soviet Union (Krepkina, Uliskina, Itkina, Turova) 1958: Soviet Union (Krepkina, Kepp, Polyakova, Maslovskaya) 1962: Poland (Ciepły, Sobotta, Szyroka, Piątkowska) 1966: Poland (Bednarek, Straszynska, Kirszenstein, Kłobukowska) 1969: East Germany (Höfer, Meissner, Podeswa, Vogt) 1971: West Germany (Schittenhelm, Helten, Irrgang, Mickler) 1974: East Germany (Maletzki, Stecher, Heinich, Eckert) 1978: Soviet Union (Anisimova, Maslakova, Kondratyeva, Storoshkova) 1982: East Germany (Walther, Eckert, Rieger, Göhr) 1986: East Germany (Gladisch, Rieger, Brestrich-Auerswald, Göhr) 1990: East Germany (Möller, Krabbe, Behrendt, Günther) 1994: Germany (Paschke, Knoll, Zipp, Lichtenhagen) 1998: France (Benth, Bangué, Félix, Arron) 2002: France (Combe, Hurtis, Félix, Sidibé) 2006: Russia (Gushchina, Rusakova, Khabarova, Grigoryeva) 2010: Ukraine (Povh, Pohrebnyak, Ryemyen, Bryzhina)

IAAF World / Continental Cup Champions in Women's 4 x 100 m relay 1977: Europe (Possekel, Lynch, Richter, Lannaman) 1979: Europe (Haglund, Réga, Richter, Hunte) 1981: East Germany (Siemon, Wöckel, Walther, Göhr) 1985: East Germany (Gladisch, Rieger, Auerswald, Göhr) 1989: East Germany (Behrendt, Günther, Möller, Oschkenat) 1992: Asia (Gao, Tian, Chen, Xiao) 1994: Africa (Idehen, Tombiri, Opara-Thompson, Onyali) 1998: United States (Taplin, Gaines, Miller, Guidry) 2002: Americas (Lawrence, Campbell, McDonald, Ferguson) 2006: Americas (Bailey, Ferguson-McKenzie, Mothersille, Simpson) 2010: Americas (Mothersille, Ferguson-McKenzie, Solomon, Baptiste)

IAAF World / Continental Cup Champions in Women's 4 x 400 m relay 1977: East Germany (Popp, Krug, Brehmer, Koch) 1979: East Germany (Kotte, Brehmer, Köhn, Koch) 1981: East Germany (Rübsam, Steuk, Wöckel, Koch) 1985: East Germany (Emmelmann, Busch, Neubauer, Koch) 1989: Americas (Crooks, Davis, Jackson, Quirot) 1992: Americas (Edeh, Crooks, Carabali, Restrepo) 1994: Great Btitain (Smith, Keough, Neef, Gunnell) 1998: Germany (Feller, Rohländer, Urbansky, Breuer) 2002: Americas (Richards, Pernía, Amertil, Guevara) 2006: Americas (S. Williams, Darling, Amertil, N. Williams) 2010: Americas (Williams, Dunn, Wilson, Amertil)

Persondata
Name	Wockel, Barbel
Alternative names
Short description	German sprinter
Date of birth	21 March 1955
Place of birth
Date of death
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