Ulrike Klotz Explained

Ulrike Klotz
Birth Date:	15 November 1970
Discipline:	Artistic gymnastics
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Ulrike Klotz (born 15 November 1970 in Cottbus) is a former gymnast who competed for East Germany. She won a bronze medal in the floor exercise at the Montreal 1985 Worlds and also won team bronze, a feat the GDR team repeated at the World Championships in 1987 and at the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in 1988. In the Seoul Olympics, she qualified for the beam final, but fell three times and finished last.^[1] She ended her gymnastics career in 1989 due to injuries.^[2]

As of 2020, she is the only German to have ever won a World Championships medal on the floor apparatus.^[3]

External links

• Video Balance beam
• Video Floor exercise
• Asymmetric bars in Tokio

Notes and References

1. Ulrike Klotz . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418022359/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/kl/ulrike-klotz-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 27 November 2018 .
2. Web site: Don . Duncan . "The GDR was my homeland. It still is." – Paper Visual Art . Paper Visual Art . 2012-05-04 . 2024-01-21.
3. Web site: Eckhard . Herholz . Ulrike Klotz vollendet heute das halbe Jahrhundert . Ulrike Klotz is completing half a century today . GYMmedia.de . de . 2024-01-21.