Dagmar Käsling

{{short description|East German sprinter}}

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| name = Dagmar Käsling

| image = Dagmar Käsling.jpg

| caption = Käsling in 1972

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| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|15 February 1947}}

| birth_place = Magdeburg, Soviet occupation zone in Germany

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{{MedalSport | Women's athletics}}

{{MedalCountry | {{GDR}} }}

{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}

{{MedalGold| 1972 Munich | 4 × 400 metres}}

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Dagmar Käsling (later Lühnenschloß, born 15 February 1947 in Magdeburg) is a former East German athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.

She competed for East Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the 4 × 400 metres where she won the gold medal with her teammates Rita Kühne, Helga Seidler and Monika Zehrt.

Käsling married sprinter Gerhard Lühnenschloß. After completing her Promotion A at Magdeburg University of Education in 1980 with a thesis on The applicability of training-specific speed and endurance exercises in school sports in grades 9 and 10 and the effects on the athletic performance development of this age group{{cite thesis | url=https://d-nb.info/840586418 | title=Die Anwendbarkeit trainingsspezifischer Übungen der Schnelligkeit und der Ausdauer im Schulsport der Klassenstufen 9 und 10 und die Auswirkungen auf die sportliche Leistungsentwicklung dieser Altersgruppe | last1=LüHnenschloß | first1=Dagmar }} and defending her Dissertation B On questions of the attitude of our pupils in grades 4 to 10 to physical education and to the athletics, gymnastics and sports games courses at the same university in 1983,{{cite thesis | url=https://d-nb.info/860190021 | title=Zu Fragen der Einstellung unserer Schülerinnen und Schüler der 4. Bis 10. Klassen zum Sportunterricht und zu den Lehrgängen Leichtathletik, Gerätturnen und Sportspiele | last1=LüHnenschloß | first1=Dagmar | last2=Schillack | first2=Gerhard }} she was appointed Professor Lühnenschloß, a lecturer at the Institut für Sportwissenschaften of the Otto-von-Guericke-Universität in Magdeburg, where she taught and conducted research in the field of track and field training science. In 2005, she published the book "Schnelligkeit".https://www.amazon.de/Schnelligkeit-Dagmar-Lühnenschloß/dp/3778001612 Schnelligkeit