Helga Haase (née Obschernitzki; 9 June 1934 – 16 June 1989) was a speed skater in East Germany. She was born in Danzig and died in East Berlin.

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Helga Haase

Helga Haase in action during the 1967 East German Championships
Personal information
Full name	Helga Haase-Obschernitzki
Born	(1934-06-09)9 June 1934 Danzig, Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland)
Died	16 June 1989(1989-06-16) (aged 55) East Berlin, East Germany
Sport
Sport	Speed skating
Club	SC Dynamo Berlin
Medal record Women's speed skating Representing  Germany Olympic Games 1960 Squaw Valley 500 m 1960 Squaw Valley 1000 m

Career

Haase's career began 1952, when she introduced herself at 18 years at the SC Dynamo Berlin, which looked for high-speed ice skaters to the world and married thereupon her coach Helmut Haase.

From 1957 to 1967, Haase (hare) reached 15 GDR master skating titles on separate distances (Einzelstrecken), an additional seven titles in combination results (samalog, or Mehrkampf in German) and a further four on a very small indoor rink (Kleinbahn), a fore-runner of present indoor short track skating.

1960 Winter Olympics

In preparation for the Olympic Winter Games of 1960, she went to Davos with the ladies of the unified German team and broke the multi-combination world record in Davos, Switzerland.[1] With the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley,[2] she won, as the first German speed skater and as the first sportswoman of the GDR, a gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games, the gold medal over 500 m. That medal also was the first Olympic medal for any woman in speed skating, as it was not before on the Olympic program. She also won the silver medal over 1000 m and finished at a respectable 8th place over 1500 m, and all of this despite the prohibition of the entry for her husband/coach.

1964 Winter Olympics

In the Olympic season of 1964, she reached again peak performance,^{[peacock prose]} with a fourth place in the 1000 m and a fifth place over 1500 m with the Olympic Games in Innsbruck. In the course of her career, Haase skated 23 German records.[3]

Post-career

In 1978, her grandson Robert Haase was born. Starting from 1984 she retired because of disablement.[4] She worked also in the central guidance of the Sportvereinigung Dynamo.

Gallery

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  Helga Haase indoor in action in 1958 at the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle in Berlin
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  Helga Haase and Siegrid Behrenz during the 1958 East-German Championships at Geising
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  Helga Haase in action during the 1960 Winter Olympics
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  Helga Haase and Gisela Manns during the East-German 1963 Championships in Berlin
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  Helga Haase indoor in action, with helmet, 1963
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  Helga Haase together with US speed skater Sylvia White, 1964
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  Helga Haase and the US women's Olympic speed skating team 1964
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  Helga Ratki, Helga Haase and Herlind Hürdler, 1965

Records

References

Notes

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На других языках

[it] Helga Haase

[ru] Хаазе, Хельга