04. Mai 2005  
Leipzig, Oklahoma City  
Artistic Gymnastics

ERIKA ZUCHOLD - 3rd German gymnast in International HALL of FAME

Erika ZUCHOLD (GER)
Former Gym Star, Painter, Sculptor, Entertainer...

It was 41 years ago, when the young German gymnast Erika Barth (GDR) was the first woman worldwide who risked a flic-flac on balance beam.But shortly before the Olympic Games of Tokyo 1946 her Achilles tendon fissured and throwed her back.....
But as Erika Zuchold she made a sensational comeback and from the world championships 1966 (Dortmund) to the Olympic Games 1972 (Munich) she developed to one of the most renowned gymnasts worldwide....
Now she got an invitation of the 'International Gymnastics Hall of Fame' in Oklahoma City at the end of May....


After her mishap in 1964 the world champion of Ljubljana (beam, vault 1970) and Olympic silver medallists (1968, 1972) became a painter, entertainer and sculptor.
Now she got an invitation from the 'International Gymnastics Hall of Fame' at the end of may...!

>> Read more on her personally website
>> www.erika-zuchold.de and
>> on the German portal of www.gymmedia.de


Photo, right, from 1964
 The very 1st flic-flac on beam, Erika Zuchold,
assisted by Ellen Berger, the long-time president of FIG women's Technical Committee, the former GDR national coach.