Ingrid Becker
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| Olympic medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's athletics | |||
| Gold | 1968 Mexico City | Pentathlon | |
| Gold | 1972 Munich | 4 x 100 m relay | |
Ingrid Mickler-Becker (born September 26, 1942 in Geseke, North Rhine-Westphalia) (née Ingrid Becker) is a former West German athlete and a double Olympic champion. Her name is sometimes written incorrectly as Ingrid Mickler in result lists.
Her international career lasted from 1960 to 1972. She won the pentathlon gold medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 4 x 100 m relay gold medal with the West German team in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
She is also a double European Champion (long jump and 4 x 100 m relay with the West German team in the 1971 European Championships).
In 1990 she became secretary of state in Rhineland-Palatinate but lost this position when her party, the CDU, lost the election in 1991.
She is a personal member of the National Olympic Committee of Germany.
| Olympic champions in women's pentathlon and heptathlon |
|---|
| As pentathlon: 1964: Irina Press | 1968: Ingrid Becker | 1972: Mary Peters | 1976: Siegrun Siegl | 1980: Nadezhda Tkachenko |
| As heptathlon: 1984: Glynis Nunn | 1988: Jackie Joyner-Kersee | 1992: Jackie Joyner-Kersee| 1996: Ghada Shouaa | 2000: Denise Lewis | 2004: Carolina Klüft |
