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Karin Büttner-Janz Personal information Full name P.D. Dr. hab. of Orth. Karin Büttner-Janz Country represented Germany Former country(ies) represented East Germany Born 17 February 1952
Lübben (Spreewald)Discipline Women's artistic gymnastics Medal recordWomen's artistic gymnastics Gold 1972 Munich Vault Gold 1972 Munich Uneven bars Silver 1968 Mexico City Uneven bars Silver 1972 Munich Team competition Silver 1972 Munich All-around Bronze 1968 Mexico City Team competition Bronze 1972 Munich Balance beam World Championships Gold 1970 Ljubljana Uneven bars Silver 1970 Ljubljana Team competition Silver 1970 Ljubljana Vault European Championships Gold 1969 Landskrona All-around Gold 1969 Landskrona Uneven bars Gold 1969 Landskrona Vault Gold 1969 Landskrona Balance beam Silver 1967 Amsterdam Uneven bars Silver 1969 Landskrona Floor exercise Bronze 1967 Amsterdam Vault Karin Büttner-Janz (born 17 February 1952 in Hartmannsdorf a district of Lübben (Spreewald), German Democratic Republic (GDR, commonly:East Germany) is a medical doctor, Olympic medal winner in artistic gymnastics and, since March 1990, chief physician of the orthopedic Vivantes hospital in Friedrichshain.
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Life
Sporting career
Her first coach was her father Guido Janz, who taught her excellent basics. Karin moved to a sports school in Forst, where she trained under Klaus Helbeck. Her final coach was Jürgen Heritz.
In 1967, at the age of fifteen, Karin Janz was nominated as East German Athlete of the Year despite not yet having had any international success. She went on to win the silver medal on the uneven bars and a bronze medal as part of the country's gymnastics team at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
At the 1970 world championships she overcame Ludmilla Tourischeva on the uneven bars to win the gold medal. In a controversial finish, she delivered another gold medal winning performance on the uneven bars at the 1972 Munich Olympics, defeating Olga Korbut on her favourite apparatus. She also won the gold medal on the vault, a silver medal as part of the East German women's gymnastic team, and bronze on the balance beam. She was the most successful sports woman of the GDR (German Democratic Republic) at the 1972 Summer Olympics and was recognized there as Sportswoman of the Year in 1972. After these successes she announced her intention of ending her competitive career to turn to the study of medicine to become a physician.
Karin has an uneven bars element named after her, the Janz Salto, which she first performed in competition at the SV Dynamo Spartakiade in East Berlin, 1971.
Academic physician
Karin Janz studied at the Humboldt University in East Berlin beginning in 1971 and earned her diploma in emergency medicine. Later, she conducted her clinical semester at the orthopedic hospital of the Charité and went on to specialize in orthopaedics. She obtained her doctorate and habilitation through her work on the development of an artificial spine disk, known as the Charité Disc. She is co-owner of a patent on the device[1] with her colleague Kurt Schellnack. Subsequently, Büttner-Janz moved to the clinic of Hellersdorf.
Honours
- 1967 - European vice-champion on the asymmetric bars, bronze medal on vault.
- 1968 - silver medal at the Olympics on the asymmetric bars, bronze medal in the team competition.
- 1969 - four time European champion (all-round, vault, uneven bars, balance beam), vice-champion in floor exercise.
- 1970 - world champion on the asymmetric bars, vice-champion on vault and in the team competition.
- 1972 - European champion on vault and the asymmetric bars, silver medal in the all-round and in the team competition, bronze medal on the balance beam.
- 1984 - first OI, where their invention, Charite artificial spine disk was used.
- 1987 - honorary member of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine; consolation prize of the Olympic Committee “in appreciation of her outstanding sports and academic career”[citation needed].
- 2000 - nominated as "Gymnast of the Century"[citation needed].
- 2003 - inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.[2]
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Awards Preceded by
Gabriele SeyfertEast German Sportswoman of the Year
1967Succeeded by
Margitta GummelPreceded by
Karin BalzerEast German Sportswoman of the Year
1972Succeeded by
Kornelia Ender1952: Ekaterina Kalinchuk | 1956: Larisa Latynina | 1960: Margarita Nikolaeva | 1964: Věra Čáslavská | 1968: Věra Čáslavská | 1972: Karin Büttner-Janz | 1976: Nellie Kim | 1980: Natalia Shaposhnikova | 1984: Ecaterina Szabo | 1988: Svetlana Boginskaya | 1992: Lavinia Miloşovici / Henrietta Ónodi | 1996: Simona Amânar | 2000: Elena Zamolodchikova | 2004: Monica Roşu | 2008: Hong Un-Jong
Olympic Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Women's Uneven Bars 1952: Margit Korondi | 1956: Ágnes Keleti | 1960: Polina Astakhova | 1964: Polina Astakhova | 1968: Věra Čáslavská | 1972: Karin Büttner-Janz | 1976: Nadia Comăneci | 1980: Maxi Gnauck | 1984: Julianne McNamara / Ma Yanhong | 1988: Daniela Silivaş | 1992: Lu Li | 1996: Svetlana Khorkina | 2000: Svetlana Khorkina | 2004: Émilie Le Pennec | 2008: He Kexin
World Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Women's Uneven Bars 1934: not awarded · 19381: conflicting data · 1950: Gretchen Kolar / Anna Petersson · 1954: Ágnes Keleti · 1958: Larisa Latynina · 1962: Irina Pervushina · 1966: Natalia Kuchinskaya · 1970: Karin Janz · 1974: Annelore Zinke · 1978: Marcia Frederick · 1979: Maxi Gnauck / Ma Yanhong · 1981: Maxi Gnauck · 1983: Maxi Gnauck · 1985: Gabriele Faehnrich · 1987: Daniela Silivaş / Dörte Thümmler · 1989: Fan Di / Daniela Silivaş · 1991: Kim Gwang-Suk · 1992: Lavinia Miloşovici · 1993: Shannon Miller · 1994: Luo Li · 1995: Svetlana Khorkina · 1996: Svetlana Khorkina / Elena Piskun · 1997: Svetlana Khorkina · 1999: Svetlana Khorkina · 2001: Svetlana Khorkina · 2002: Courtney Kupets · 2003: Chellsie Memmel / Hollie Vise · 2005: Nastia Liukin · 2006: Beth Tweddle · 2007: Ksenia Semenova · 2009: He Kexin · 2010: Beth Tweddle · 2011: Viktoria Komova
1 Women competed on Parallel Bars, not Uneven Bars, at the 1938 World ChampionshipsCategories:- 1952 births
- Living people
- People from Lübben (Spreewald)
- German female artistic gymnasts
- Gymnasts at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Gymnasts at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for East Germany
- Olympic silver medalists for East Germany
- Olympic bronze medalists for East Germany
- Olympic gymnasts of East Germany
- World champion gymnasts
- Medalists at World Gymnastics Championships
- Sportspeople from Berlin
- German scientists
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
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