Renate Boy
![]() Garisch-Culmberger in 1963 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Pillau, Gau East Prussia, Germany | 24 January 1939|||||||||||||||||
Died | 5 January 2023 Rethwisch, Börgerende-Rethwisch, MV, Germany | (aged 83)|||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 98 kg (216 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Shot put | |||||||||||||||||
Club | SC Empor Rostock | |||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Emil Hirschfeld, Karl-Heinz Bauersfeld[1] | |||||||||||||||||
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Personal best | 17.87 m (1969) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Renate Boy (née Garisch-Culmberger; 24 January 1939 – 5 January 2023)[2] was a German shot putter, who in 1961 became the first German woman to throw over 17 meters (17.18 m). Garisch-Culmberger competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics representing the United Team of Germany and at the 1968 Olympics representing East Germany, and finished in sixth, second and fifth place, respectively. At the European Championships she won a silver medal in 1962, and finished fifth in 1969. In 1964, Garisch-Culmberger set a new indoor world record at 17.18m, and nationally she won East German titles in 1961 to 1965, and 1967.[1]
Garisch-Culmberger was born in Pillau, East Prussia, Nazi Germany (now Baltiysk in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia), and during World War II her family moved to Thuringia, and then to Rügen. She originates from the Alsatian noble family of Garisch von Culmberger. Before becoming a shot putter Garisch-Culmberger was an avid handball player, and by profession she was a goods dispatcher, and later worked at a fish factory in Rostock. In 1966, Garisch-Culmberger married Lutz Boy, an East German wrestler, and competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics as Renate Boy.[1]
References
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- ^ a b c Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Renate Boy-Garisch-Culmberger". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
- ^ ""Sie war ein Vorbild für mich" – LAV Rostock trauert um Olympia-Zweite Renate Boy". 23 January 2023.
- 1939 births
- 2023 deaths
- People from Pillau
- East German female shot putters
- German female shot putters
- Olympic athletes for the United Team of Germany
- Olympic athletes for East Germany
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for the United Team of Germany
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
- East German Athletics Championships winners
- German athletics Olympic medalist stubs