15. Februar 2023  
Potsdam, GER  
Artistic Gymnastics

International Gymnastics Expert Margot Dietz passed away

Margot DIETZ
* 08.05. 1931 -

+14.02.2023

Almost 3 months before her 92nd birthday, the former FIG gymnastics expert and international referee Margot DIETZ passed away peacefully in Potsdam yesterday (February 14)! At the side of the former German (GDR) federation coach and later president of the Technical Committee Women's Gymnastics of the World Gymnastics Federation (FIG) Ellen Berger, she did analysis work and worked as an international judge for many years.
Above all, however, she travelled for many years on behalf of the FIG as an expert to numerous countries in the world and gave important development aid in the training of coaches and judges, as well as in the evaluation regulations for women's artistic gymnastics (Code de Pointage), which are constantly being further developed in the Olympic 4-year rhythm.

Margot DIETZ, May 2021, on her 90th birthday, still in a lively mood during a visit of her former Dutch referee colleague Marijke VAN DER TUIN (Olympic Judge 1988, 1992 and 1996.
(c) gymmedia / Hans van Zetten

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Margot Dietz, im konzentrierten Kampfrichtereinsat Anfang der siebziger Jahre
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At the beginning of the 1950's, Margot DIETZ, as a young new teacher at the vocational school in Zeulenroda (Thuringia/GER), was one of the first distance students at the German University of Physical Education (DHfK) in Leipzig, which had evolved from the Institute for Physical Exercise, where she taught a position in the university service of the Institute for Gymnastics one year before graduation and was part of the research group there.
In particular, she was instrumental in the development of a symbolic script (shorthand) for female artistic gymnastics, which was a great help for the complex evaluation of high-quality exercises for coaches and judges and also became internationally accepted.
 Even after moving from her old adopted home in Leipzig to Brandenburg in the last decade, she has always continued to maintain national and international contacts and especially those collegial and friendly relationships which have developed through her decades of work as a gymnastics expert and which have been of great importance to her as the real value of her commitment as an ex-athlete, researcher and educator until her old age!
(C) gymmedia / - Eckhard Herholz