Karin Buttner-Janz
Karin Buttner-Janz was born in Lübben (Spreewald), Brandenburg, Germany on February 17th, 1952 and is the Gymnast. At the age of 72, Karin Buttner-Janz biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Karin Büttner-Janz (née Janz, born 17 February 1952) is a German medical doctor who won world and Olympic gold medals in artistic gymnastics for East Germany.
From 1990 to 2012, she was chief physician of clinics in Berlin, Germany.
She has a foundation named Spinefoundation.
Gymnastics career
Guido Janz, her first coach, taught her excellent basics. Büttner-Janz enrolled in Forst, where she was educated under Klaus Helbeck. Jürgen Heritz was her final coach.
Büttner-Janz was named as the East German Athlete of the Year in 1967, after a silver medal on the uneven bars and a bronze medal on the vault at the European championship in Amsterdam. As part of the country's gymnastics team at the 1968 Summer Olympics, she earned the silver medal on the uneven bars and a bronze medal.
She defeated Ludmilla Tourischeva to win the gold medal at the 1970 world championships, despite the uneven bars. She continued to win gold medalist status on the uneven bars at the 1972 Munich Olympics, defeating Olga Korbut on her new equipment in a tumultuous finish. She also earned the gold medal on the vault, a silver medal in the East German women's gymnastics team, winning another coveted silver medal in the all around tournament, with Ludmilla Touriereva of the Soviet Union winning the gold and bronze on the balance beam. The majority thought she was robbed of the All Around title, particularly because she had almost identical performances in the event's finals 4 routines combined, defeating Tourischeva by a whopping 0.65 percent. She was the most popular German athlete at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and was later named GDR (German Democratic Republic) Sportswoman of the Year. Following these successes, she declared her intention to return from sport to medicine in order to become a doctor.
Büttner-Janz has an uneven bars element named after her, the Janz Salto, who first competed at the SV Dynamo Spartakiade in East Berlin, 1971.
