On Friday, January the 31st, the former member of GDR national teams Birgit RADOCHLA (married -Michailoff) celebrated her 70th birthday at the Canarian Island Teneriffa, where she just spend her holidays. The Berlin resident was the first German gymnast in history, who won an individual Olympic medal in Tokyo 1964, the silver medal on vault, together with Larissa Latynina (RUS) and behind the winning and all-around champion Vera Caslavska (CZE). In all-around and on floor exercise she ranked on fourth place ...
Birgit Radochla was a seven times German national champion and won also medals at the European Championships 1967 in Sofia (BUL) ....
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