Helga Haase
 Helga Haase in action during the 1967 East-German Championships | ||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Helga Haase-Obschernitzki | |||||||||||||||
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June 9, 1934 Danzig, Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) | |||||||||||||||
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June 16, 1989 (aged 55) East Berlin, East Germany | |||||||||||||||
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Helga Haase (née Obschernitzki, June 9, 1934 – June 16, 1989) was a speedskater in the GDR. She was born in Danzig and died in East Berlin.
Career
Helga's career began 1952, when she introduced herself at 18 years at the SC Dynamo Berlin, which looked for high-speed ice skaters to the world and married thereupon her coach Helmut Haase.
From 1957 to 1967, Haase (hare) reached 15 GDR master skating titles on separate distances ('Einzelstrecken'), an additional seven titles in combination results (Samalog or 'Mehrkampf' in German) and a further four on a very small indoor rink ('Kleinbahn'), a fore runner of present indoor short track skating.
1960: the Olympic Winter Games
In preparation of the Olympic Wintergames of 1960 she went to Davos with the ladies of the unified German team and broke the multi-combination world record in Davos, Switzerland)[1] With the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley,[2] she won, as first German speedskater and as a first sportswoman of the GDR, a gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games, the gold medal over 500 m. That medal also was the first olympic medal for any woman in women's speed skating, as it was not before on the Olympic program. She also won the silver medal over 1000 m and finished at a respectable 8th place over 1500 m., and all of this despite the prohibition of the entry for her husband/coach.
1964: the Olympic Winter Games
In the Olympic season of 1964, she reached again peak performance, resulting in a fourth place over 1000 m and a fifth place over 1500 m with the Olympic Games in Innsbruck. In the course of her career Helga Haase skated 23 German records.[3]
Post-career
In 1978, her grandson Robert Haase was born. Starting from 1984 she went into a pension because of disablement .[4] She worked also in the central guidance of the Sportvereinigung Dynamo.
Gallery
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Helga Haase indoor in action in 1958 at the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle in Berlin
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Helga Haase and Siegrid Behrenz during the 1958 East-German Championships at Geising
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Helga Haase in action during the 1960 Winter Olympics
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Helga Haase and Gisela Manns during the East-German 1963 Championships in Berlin
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Helga Haase indoor in action, with helmet, 1963
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Helga Haase together with US speedskater Sylvia White, 1964
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Helga Haase and the US Women Olympic Speedskating team 1964
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Helga Ratki, Helga Haase and Herlind Hürdler, 1965
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References
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Bibliography
- Eng, Trond. All Time International Championships, Complete Results 1889 - 2002. Askim, Norway: WSSSA Skøytenytt, 2002.
- Teigen, Magne. Komplette resultater, Internasjonale Mesterskap 1889-1989 (in Norwegian). Veggli, Norway: WSSSA Skøytenytt, 1989.
- Zickow, Alfred. 100 Jahre Deutsche Eisschnellaufmeisterschaften, 1891-1991. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Eisschnellaufes (in German). Berlin, Germany: DESG, 1991.
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