Hildrun Laufer-Claus

East German long jumper

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Hildrun Claus at the 1960 Olympics

Personal information

Born

(1939-05-13) 13 May 1939 (age 85)
Dresden, Germany

Height

1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)

Weight

66 kg (146 lb)

Sport

Athletics

Event

Long jump

Club

SC Dynamo Berlin

Achievements and titles

Personal best

6.48 m (1964)

Medal record

Representing Germany

Olympic Games
	1960 Rome	Long jump

Hildrun Laufer-Claus (née Claus; born 13 May 1939) is a former East German athlete. She competed in the long jump at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics and finished in third and seventh place, respectively.^[1]

Claus was born in Dresden, but later moved to East Berlin. She won East German championships in the long jump in 1957–1962 and 1964, and set three world records (6.36 m and 6.40 m in 1960 and 6.42 m in 1961). She married Peter Laufer, a German Olympic pole vaulter, and at the 1964 Games competed as Hildrun Laufer-Claus. She has a degree of a landscape designer. In 1995 she was paralyzed as a result of a sports-related accident.^[1]