Birgit Rockmeier

Birgit Rockmeier
Personal information
Full name	Birgit Rockmeier
Born	(1973-11-29) 29 November 1973 (age 50) Athletics
Event(s)	100 m, 200 m, 400 m
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	60 metres: 7.34 (Halle/Saale; January 1999) 100 metres: 11.33 (Bochum; July 2005) 200 metres: 22.90 (Stuttgart; July 2001) 400 metres: 51.45 (Dortmund; July 2000)

Birgit Rockmeier (born 29 November 1973 in

Moosburg) is a former German sprinter who specialised in the 200 metres

Rockmeier's personal best time is 22.90 seconds, achieved in July 2001 in Stuttgart. She represented the sports club LG Olympia Dortmund and is the twin sister of Gabi Rockmeier.

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing West Germany
1990	World Junior Championships	Plovdiv, Bulgaria	3rd (h)^[1]	4 × 100 m relay	44.95
Representing Germany
1991	European Junior Championships	Thessaloniki, Greece	1st	4 × 100 m relay	44.46
1992	World Junior Championships	Seoul, South Korea	3rd	4 × 100 m relay	44.52
1994	European Championships	Helsinki, Finland	20th (h)	200m	23.89 (wind: -0.3 m/s)
1997	World Championships	Athens, Greece	4th	4 × 100 m relay	42.44
1998	European Indoor Championships	Valencia, Spain	4th	200 m^[2]	23.24
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	2nd	4 × 100 m relay	42.68
	World Cup	Johannesburg, South Africa	3rd	4 × 100 m relay	42.81
1999	World Indoor Championships	Maebashi, Japan	6th	200 m	23.74
2000	European Indoor Championships	Ghent, Belgium	4th	200 m^[3]	23.29
2001	World Indoor Championships	Lisbon, Portugal	3rd	4 × 400 m relay	3:31.00
2001	World Championships	Edmonton, Canada	1st	4 × 100 m relay	42.32
2002	European Championships	Munich, Germany	8th	400 m	52.91
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:25.10
	World Cup	Madrid, Spain	5th	4 × 100 m relay	43.36
	World Cup	Madrid, Spain	6th	4 × 400 m relay	3:31.09
2003	World Championships	Paris, France	4th	4 × 400 m relay	3:26.25

References

^ Did not finish in the final.
^ 1998 European Indoor Championships, women's 200 m final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite
^ 2000 European Indoor Championships, women's 200 m final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite

External links

Birgit Rockmeier at World Athletics

World champions in women's 4 × 100 metres relay

1983: Silke Gladisch, Marita Koch, Ingrid Auerswald, Marlies Oelsner-Göhr (GDR)
1987: Alice Brown, Diane Williams, Florence Griffith Joyner, Pam Marshall (USA)
1991: Dahlia Duhaney, Juliet Cuthbert, Beverly McDonald, Merlene Ottey, Merlene Frazer (JAM)
1993: Olga Bogoslovskaya, Galina Malchugina, Natalya Pomoshchnikova-Voronova, Irina Privalova, Marina Trandenkova (RUS)
1995: Celena Mondie-Milner, Carlette Guidry, Chryste Gaines, Gwen Torrence, D'Andre Hill (USA)
1997: Chryste Gaines, Marion Jones, Inger Miller, Gail Devers (USA)
1999: Savatheda Fynes, Chandra Sturrup, Pauline Davis-Thompson, Debbie Ferguson, Eldece Clarke-Lewis (BAH)
2001: Melanie Paschke, Gabi Rockmeier, Birgit Rockmeier, Marion Wagner (GER)
2003: Patricia Girard-Léno, Muriel Hurtis, Sylviane Félix, Christine Arron (FRA)
2005: Angela Daigle, Muna Lee, Me'Lisa Barber, Lauryn Williams (USA)
2007: Lauryn Williams, Allyson Felix, Mikele Barber, Torri Edwards, Carmelita Jeter, Mechelle Lewis (USA)
2009: Simone Facey, Shelly-Ann Fraser, Aleen Bailey, Kerron Stewart (JAM)
2011: Bianca Knight, Allyson Felix, Marshevet Myers, Carmelita Jeter, Shalonda Solomon, Alexandria Anderson (USA)
2013: Carrie Russell, Kerron Stewart, Schillonie Calvert, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Sheri-Ann Brooks (JAM)
2015: Veronica Campbell Brown, Natasha Morrison, Elaine Thompson, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Sherone Simpson, Kerron Stewart (JAM)
2017: Aaliyah Brown, Allyson Felix, Morolake Akinosun, Tori Bowie, Ariana Washington (USA)
2019: Natalliah Whyte, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Jonielle Smith, Shericka Jackson, Natasha Morrison (JAM)
2022: Melissa Jefferson, Abby Steiner, Jenna Prandini, Twanisha Terry, Aleia Hobbs (USA)
2023: Tamari Davis, Twanisha Terry, Gabrielle Thomas, Sha'Carri Richardson, Tamara Clark, Melissa Jefferson (USA)

European Athletics Championships champions in women's 4 × 400 metres relay

1969: Great Britain (Stirling, Lowe, Simpson, Board)
1971: East Germany (Kühne, Lohse, Seidler, Zehrt)
1974: East Germany (Rohde, Dietsch, Handt, Streidt)
1978: East Germany (Marquardt, Krug, Brehmer, Koch)
1982: East Germany (Siemon, Busch, Rübsam, Koch)
1986: East Germany (Siemon, Busch, Müller, Koch)
1990: East Germany (Derr, Hesselbarth, Müller, Breuer)
1994: France (Landre, Elien, Dorsile, Pérec)
1998: Germany (Feller, Rohländer, Rieger, Breuer)
2002: Germany (Ekpo-Umoh, Rockmeier, Marx, Breuer)
2006: Russia (Pospelova, Ivanova, Zaytseva, Veshkurova)
2010: Germany (Lindenberg, Cremer, Kohlmann, Hoffmann)
2012: Ukraine (Olishevska, Zemlyak, Pyhyda, Lohvynenko)
2014: France (Gayot, Hurtis, Raharolahy, Gueï)
2016: Great Britain (Diamond, Onuora, Doyle, Bundy-Davies)
2018: Poland (Hołub-Kowalik, Baumgart-Witan, Wyciszkiewicz, Święty-Ersetic)
2022: Netherlands (Saalberg, Klaver, Bol, de Witte)

German champions in women's 100 metres

German champions in women's 200 metres

v t e German champions in women's 400 metres
1991: Karin Janke 1992–94: Anja Rücker 1995: Silke-Beate Knoll 1996–97: Grit Breuer 1998: Uta Rohländer 1999–2001: Grit Breuer 2002: Birgit Rockmeier 2003–04: Claudia Marx 2005–08: Claudia Hoffmann 2009: Sorina Nwachukwu 2010: Janin Lindenberg 2011–14: Esther Cremer 2015–17: Ruth Spelmeyer 2018: Nadine Gonska 2019: Luna Bulmahn 2020: Corinna Schwab

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