Burghild Wieczorek

{{short description|German long jumper}}

{{use dmy dates|date=December 2017}}

{{Use British English|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Burghild Wieczorek

| full_name =

| image = 150px

| caption = Wieczorek in 1967

| nationality = German

| sport = Athletics

| event = Long jump

| club = SC DHfK, Leipzig

| birth_date = {{birth date|1943|5|4|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Dessau, Dessau-Roßlau, Germany

| death_date = {{death date and age|2016|11|28|1943|5|4|df=yes}}

| death_place = Jena, Thüringen, Germany

| height =174 cm

| weight =65 kg

}}

Burghild Wieczorek (4 May 1943 – 28 November 2016) was a German athlete who competed in the at the 1968 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wi/burghild-wieczorek-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418022728/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wi/burghild-wieczorek-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Burghild Wieczorek Olympic Results |accessdate=17 December 2017}}

Biography

Wieczorek finished second behind Berit Berthelsen in the long jump event at the 1967 WAAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004941/19670702/480/0023 |title=Board may forgive Anne |work=Sunday Express |date=2 July 1967 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=1 March 2025 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=1 March 2025}}{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=1 March 2025 }}

At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, she represented East Germany in the women's long jump event{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69746 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=1 March 2025}}

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