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Born |
Braunschweig, German Reich | 14 January 1940||||||||||||||||||||||
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Eintracht Braunschweig | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1963–1976 | West Germany | 30 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Gudrun Scholz née Scheller (born 14 January 1940) is a retired German field hockey player.
Scholz joined Eintracht Braunschweig in 1952, initially competing as a long jumper. In 1959 she set a German record at 6.22m. [1] In 1961, Scholz placed third in the long jump competition at the German Athletics Championships. [2]
In the early 1960s, she joined Eintracht Braunschweig's field hockey team. With her club, she won nine German championship titles. [3] She also played 30 games in total for the West German national team. [4]
With West Germany, Scholz won the 1976 Women's Hockey World Cup. She scored both goals in the final, a 2–0 win over Argentina. [5]
In 1977, Scholz was awarded the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt and the Paul-Reinberg-Plakette, the highest award of the German Hockey Federation. [6] In 1988, she was inducted into the hall of fame of the Lower Saxon Institute of Sports History. [7]