Career
Quite notably, Zuchold is credited as being the first woman to compete the flick-flack element on balance beam at a Worlds or Olympics, at the 1966 World Championships (performed first time at East German championship 1964 in Halle (Saale)), as well as being one of the first two women, along with Věra Čáslavská at the 1968 Olympics, to compete a front handspring on balance beam. She also had a transition element named after her on uneven bars. In her post-gymnastics career, she explored a number of diverse activities and careers, including being a trapeze artist, a curator, an educator, and an abstract painter.
In 2005, Zuchold was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.