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Two days later in a thrilling pentathlon, she finished second to Mary Peters of Britain.
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Heidemarie Rosendahl
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She set a world record of 6.84 m in long jump at Turin in 1970 which stood for five years. 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 200 m in 22.96 seconds.
She finished with 4791 points, 16 points better than Burglinde Pollak"s world record.
She held the world record for 1.12 seconds before Peters bettered it by 10 points on finishing her 200 m race in 24.08 seconds. In 1970 and 1972 Rosendahl was chosen as the German Sportswoman of the Year.
She worked as athletics coach at Turn- und Sportverein Bayer 04 Leverkusen (1976–1990) and Deutsche Leichtathletik-Verband (1993–2001). Their son, Danny Ecker, is a world-class pole vaulter.
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She won the long jump gold medal in the 1972 Munich Olympics with a leap of 6.78 m, one centimetre ahead of Diana Yorgova of Bulgaria. To further prove her versatility, she helped the West German 4 × 100 m team with Christiane Krause, Ingrid Mickler-Becker and Annegret Richter to the gold medal and a world record. Holding off the East German sprints champion Renate Stecher, in the process. She is married to John Ecker, an American basketball player who won the 1969, 1970 and 1971 National Collegiate Athletic Association Championships as a member of the University of California, Los Angeles Bruins. Rosendahl"s father, Heinz Rosendahl, was the German champion in the discus throw in 1948, 1951 and 1953.
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Germany