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| Women'sathletics | ||
Representing West Germany | ||
| European Championships | ||
 | 1958 Stockholm | Long jump |
Elisabeth "Liesel" Jakobi, married surnameLuxenburger (née Jakobi; born 28 February 1939) is a German formertrack and field athlete who competed in thelong jump forWest Germany.
Born inSaarbrücken, she took upathletics 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 the1958 European Athletics Championships in Stockholm. Her winning mark of 6.14 m (20 ft1+1⁄2 in) was achampionship record by ten centimetres (improving the four-year-old record of Britain'sJean Desforges).[1]
At national level that year she only placed third in the long jump at theWest German Athletics Championships. Over her career she was a national runner-up once (1959) and twice more a third-place finisher (1960 and 1963), but she never won the West German title. She was, however, twice a national sprint champion indoors over60 metres, winning that title first in 1960 and again in 1963. She stopped competing at a high level shortly after getting married.[2][3]
European Athletics Championships champions in women'slong jump | |
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