Ursel Brunner

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| name = Ursel Brunner

| image = Brunner, Ursel cropped, Bestanddeelnr 915-5765.jpg

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| caption = Brunner in 1963

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| strokes = Freestyle

| club = SV Nikar, Heidelberg

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1941|01|30|df=y}}

| birth_place = Heidelberg-Ziegelhausen, Germany

| death_date = {{death date and age|2024|9|18|1941|1|30|df=yes}}[https://trauer.rnz.de/traueranzeige/ursel-wirth-brunner Ursel Brunner's obituary] {{in lang|de}}

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Ursula "Ursel" Brunner ({{IPA|de|ˈʊʁzl̩ ˈbʁʊnɐ|-|De-Ursel Brunner.ogg}}; 30 January 1941 – 18 September 2024) was a West German freestyle swimmer. She competed at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics and won two bronze medals in relay events in 1960.

She won at least 15 national titles in the 100 m butterfly (1961–1962), 400 m individual medley (1962–1963), and 100 m (1959–1963) and 400 m freestyle (1957, 1959–1963). In 1963, she was selected the German Sportspersonality of the Year. In 1975 Brunner married her former coach Hans Wirth (died 1988). She had a son.

Publications

{{cite book |author=Ursel Brunner |title=Beobachtungen und Ergebnisse bei der Behandlung von Patientinnen mit Corpuscarcinom 1955–1962 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_9M2HQAACAAJ |year=1966}}
{{cite book |author1=Ursel Brunner |author2=Marion Knebel |author3=Hanns Wirth |title=Das Konditionstraining des Schwimmers: Teil 1: Trockentraining |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1PEMtwAACAAJ |year=1970 |publisher=Bartels & Wernitz}}
{{cite book |author1=Ursel Brunner |author2=Marion Knebel |author3=Hanns Wirth |title=1. Trockentraining. – 1970. – 111 S.: zahlr. Ill., graph. Darst. – Literaturverz. S. 107–111 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I5S1PgAACAAJ |year=1970 |publisher=Bartels [u.] Wernitz}}
{{cite book |author=Ursel Brunner |title=Trockentraining |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qGqMPgAACAAJ |year=1976 |publisher=Bartels, Wernitz}}

References

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{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/ursel-brunner-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417090314/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/ursel-brunner-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2020}}

Schwimmen – Deutsche Meisterschaften. Damen [http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/s/schwimmen/hst/133.html Teil 1], [http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/s/schwimmen/hst/135.html Teil 3]. sport-komplett.de

[http://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/ursel+brunner/1/51194.html Ursel Brunner]. munzinger.de (27 November 2000).

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{{succession box

| before = Jutta Heine

| title = German Sportswoman of the Year

| years = 1962

| after = Roswitha Esser
Annemarie Zimmermann

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Category:1941 births

Category:2024 deaths

Category:German female backstroke swimmers

Category:German female freestyle swimmers