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Sabine Busch

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East German athlete

Sabine Busch

Medal record
Women'sathletics
Representing East Germany
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place1988 Seoul4 × 400 m relay
World Championships
Gold medal – first place1983 Helsinki4 × 400 m relay
Gold medal – first place1987 Rome400 m hurdles
Gold medal – first place1987 Rome4 × 400 m relay

Sabine Busch (laterAscui; born 21 November 1962, inErfurt) is a retiredEast Germanathlete, who specialised in the400 metres and the400 metres hurdles. In 1987, she became theWorld Champion at 400  m hurdles and theWorld Indoor Champion at 400  m.

Biography

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At the1982 European Championships she finished fourth in the 400 m, before winning agold medal in the4 × 400 metres relay, together with teammatesKirsten Siemon,Dagmar Rubsam andMarita Koch. At the1983 World Championships she finished fifth in her 400 m semifinal and was eliminated, but won another gold medal in the relay, with teammatesGesine Walther, Koch and Rübsam. She set her 400 m lifetime best of 49.24 in Erfurt in June 1984, but could not compete in the 1984 Olympics due to the Eastern Bloc Boycott.

Busch switched to the 400 m hurdles in 1985, with immediate success, winning the European Cup inMoscow in 54.13 secs, before breakingMargarita Ponomaryova'sworld record of 53.58, with 53.55 inBerlin in September.[1] She ended the season by winning at the World Cup in Canberra in 54.44.

Busch began 1986 by winning the 400 m title at theEuropean Indoor Championships for the second time, having also won the1985 Event. At the1986 European Championships in Stuttgart, she won asilver medal in the 400 m hurdles, losing toMarina Stepanova, who in the process broke Busch's world record with 53.32, Busch ran 53.60. She won a gold medal in the relay with Emmelmann (Siemon),Petra Muller and Koch.

In 1987, Busch won the 400 m title at theWorld Indoor Championships in Indianapolis. The highlight of her career came at the1987 World Championships in Rome, where she won a clear victory in the 400 m hurdles in 53.62 secs, to become world champion. She won a second gold medal in the relay with Emmelmann, Neubauer (Rubsam) and Muller. At the1988 Olympic Games inSeoul she finished fourth in the final of the400 m hurdles, being edged out of thebronze medal by her GDR teammateEllen Fiedler (53.63 – 53.69). She did win a bronze medal in the relay alongside her teammates Neubauer, Emmelmann and Muller.

In 1991, Busch represented a United Germany at theWorld Championships in Tokyo, where she was eliminated in the semi-finals in 55.93 secs.

Busch's career best time at the 400 m hurdles was 53.24 seconds, achieved in August 1987 inPotsdam. As of 2024, this is still the German record.[2] Her personal best time in the 400 metres of 49.24 seconds, places her second on the German all-time list, only behindMarita Koch.[2] On the world all-time lists, she ranks 16th at 400 m and 24th at 400 m hurdles.

Busch represented the sports clubSC Turbine Erfurt and was coached byEberhard König.

References

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  1. ^World Record Progression, 400 m. hurdles women – The Athletics Site
  2. ^abTop 10 lists in German athleticsArchived 27 September 2009 at theWayback Machine – Deutschen Leichtathletik-Verband

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Sporting positions
Preceded byWomen's 400 m Hurdles Best Year Performance
1985		Succeeded by
Preceded byWomen's 400 m Hurdles Best Year Performance
1987		Succeeded by
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