Carla BODENDORF

Beside her 1976 Olympic relay gold medal (also placing fourth over 200 metres) Carla Bodendorf won two bronzes at the 1978 European Championships in the 200 and 4×100. She was East German champion in the 1978 200 meters. Bodendorf was twice a member of the world record setting teams in the 4×100, in 1976 and 1978. In 1975 she ran on the European Cup champion sprint relay team.

Bodendorf later became a sports teacher and then a politician and project manager in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Saxony-Anhalt. She is married to non-Olympian and former long and triple jumper Jürgen Bodendorf, who later worked as a football coach in lower class clubs.

Personal Bests: 100 – 11.22 (1976); 200 – 22.64 (1976).