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Marita Koch: Astrological Article and Chart
You will find below the horoscope of Marita Koch with her interactive chart, an excerpt of her astrological portrait and her planetary dominants.
Author: Panini
Credits: 'Goofy Olympic Sport 80', Panini figurina
Licence: Public domain
| Born: | Monday, February 18, 1957, 5:08 AM | |||
| In: | Wismar (Germany) | |||
| Sun: | 29°15' Aquarius | AS: | 4°36' Capricorn | |
| Moon: | 17°45' Libra | MC: | 13°47' Scorpio | |
| Dominants: | Aquarius, Capricorn, Scorpio Mars, Saturn, Neptune Houses 1, 9, 3 / Air, Earth / Fixed | |||
| Chinese Astrology: | Fire Rooster | |||
| Numerology: | Birth Path 6 | |||
| Height: | Marita Koch is 5' 7½" (1m71) tall | |||
| Pageviews: | 9,398 | |||
Additional information on the source of the birth time is sometimes available in the biography excerpt below.
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Photo: Wolfgang Kluge via Wikipedia
I am haunted by the photo of East German sprinter Marita Koch smiling in the midst of a group of young fans. The photo was taken in 1986 when Koch was 29 years old and just ten months removed from the most astonishing performance of her long, illustrious career, a world record 47.60 for 400m in which she split 22.4 for 200m and 34.1 for 300m. Since she ran that time almost 30 years ago, only one other woman has come within a second of the record. Even more astounding, only four other women have even broken 49 seconds. It’s as if that 47.60 came from another world, and in a sense it did.
In the photo, Koch is smiling as she grasps the hand of a young girl. Although all the children in the photo are wearing rain jackets, Koch wears only her East German national team uniform, and one’s eye moves automatically to her well-muscled arms and shoulders. She looks like she has just won a race and is ready to sign autographs. She looks like
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Koch, Marita
German sprinter Marita Koch (born 1957) was, in the words of track coach Miroslav Kvac, "the most remarkable woman sprinter of our time," (as quoted on the website of the International Amateur Athletic Federation, or IAAF). The degree to which she dominated her competition in short distance races during her peak years in the late 1970s and early 1980s has rarely been matched, in track and field or in any other sport. Some have called her the greatest female athlete of all time.
Before her retirement in 1987, due to injuries, Koch broke world records 31 times. At one point, she had notched the six fastest times ever run by a woman in the 400 meters, as well as eight of the ten fastest times in the 200 meters. One of her individual records, her blistering pace of 47.60 seconds in the 400-meter race at the 1985 World Cup in Canberra, Australia, still stands and is the second-oldest record in any sport in Olympic competition. No runner has even approached that record.