Career
She specialized in 400 metres, and competed for the clubs VfL Gladbeck and South Carolina Eintracht Hamm. The team consisted of Gisela Kinzel, Ute Thimm, Heidi-Elke Gaugel and Gaby Bußmann. In addition she helped finish sixth at the 1983 World Championships and fifth at the 1987 World Championships.
She ran in the heats at the 1988 Summer Olympics.