Career
Born in Saarbrücken, she took up athletics and began training with the local club, ATSV Saarbrücken. She reached the peak of continental competition at the age of nineteen by winning the gold medal in the long jump at the 1958 European Athletics Championships in Stockholm. Her winning mark of 6.14 m (20 ft 11⁄2 in) was a championship record by ten centimetres (improving the four-year-old record of Britain"s Jean Desforges).
At national level that year she only placed third in the long jump at the West German Athletics Championships.
She stopped competing at a high level shortly after getting married.