Bärbel Broschat, née Klepp (born 2 November 1957 in Magdeburg

Magdeburg

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) is a retired East German hurdler

400 metres hurdles

The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...

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In 1980, a special edition of the World Championships

IAAF World Championships in Athletics

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 was staged in Sittard

Sittard

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, holding events not yet on the Olympic programme. Broschat won the 400 m hurdles ahead of compatriots Ellen Neumann and Petra Pfaff

Petra Pfaff

Petra Pfaff is a retired East German hurdler.In 1980, a special edition of the World Championships was staged in Sittard, holding events not yet on the Olympic programme. Pfaff won the bronze medal in the 400 m hurdles behind compatriots Bärbel Broschat and Ellen Neumann...

. Her winning time of 54.55 seconds was a career best time. This ranks her tenth among German 400 m hurdlers, behind Sabine Busch

Sabine Busch

Sabine Busch is a retired East German athlete who specialized in the 400 metres and the 400 metres hurdles. She was born in Erfurt.At the 1982 European Championships she finished fourth in the 400 metres hurdles, but won a gold medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay together with teammates Kirsten...

, Cornelia Ullrich

Cornelia Ullrich

Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1988-0604-007, Cornelia Ulrich, Susanne Losch.jpg Cornelia Ullrich, née Feuerbach is a retired East German hurdler...

, Ellen Fiedler

Ellen Fiedler

Ellen Fiedler, is a German hurdler.She won the bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, in a career best time of 53.63 seconds...

, Heike Meißner, Gudrun Abt

Gudrun Abt

Gudrun Abt is a retired German hurdler. She was born in Riedlingen.At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul she finished sixth in 400 m hurdles in a personal best time of 54.04 seconds...

, Silvia Rieger

Silvia Rieger

Silvia Rieger is a retired German athlete who specialized in the 400 metres hurdles.Her personal best time in the 200 metres is 54.22 seconds, achieved at the 1998 IAAF World Cup in Johannesburg...

, Susanne Losch, Karin Roßley

Karin Roßley

Karin Roßley, is a retired East German hurdler, who represented the sports team SC Cottbus. She was born in Cottbus.She won the bronze medal at the 1978 European Championships....

 and Petra Krug

Petra Krug

Petra Krug is a retired East German hurdler.She finished fifth at the 1983 World Championships. She represented the sports clubs SC Einheit Dresden and SC Dynamo Berlin, and became East German champion in 1989....

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Broschat represented the sports club SC Magdeburg

SC Magdeburg

SC Magdeburg is a German multi-sports club located in the city of Magdeburg, which offers athletics, canoeing, gymnastics, rowing, swimming and team handball. Historically, the club has also had a water polo section as well as a football section that was separated that as 1. FC Magdeburg in 1965...

, and became East German champion in 1979.

Broschat is 1.73 metres tall; during her active career she weighed 62 kg.