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Ruth Fuchs
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German politician and athlete, Olympic champion (1946–2023)
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Ruth Fuchs is a German politician and athletics competitor born in Egeln in 1946. She competed in the women's javelin throw at the 1972, 1976, and 1980 Summer Olympics. Fuchs served as a member of the German Bundestag and was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and the Party of Democratic Socialism. Her work locations included Bonn and Erfurt.
She is also an author with eight works, including titles such as *Erkül Bwaroo und der Mord Im Onyx-Express* and *Gestatten, Erkül Bwaroo*. Her native language is German, and she speaks it. Fuchs has a height of 169 and a mass of 71. She participated in the 2009 German presidential election.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Erkül Bwaroo und der Mord Im Onyx-Express
- Erkül Bwaroo Auf der Fabelinsel
- Fragen Sie Erkül Bwaroo!
- Welcher Naturgeist Ist Das?
- Gestatten, Erkül Bwaroo, Elfendetektiv
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,946x
- AutoDock4 and AutoDockTools4: Automated docking with selective receptor flexibility
· 2009 · cited 23,184x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,879x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
- Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3
· 2024 · cited 15,246x
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Key facts
- Nationality
- Germany
- Born
- Ruth Gamm , ( 1946-12-14 ) 14 December 1946, Egeln , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany
- Died
- 20 September 2023 (2023-09-20) (aged 76), Jena , Thuringia , Germany
- Height
- 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
- Weight
- 71 kg (157 lb)
- Country
- East Germany
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event
- Javelin throw
- Club
- TuS Jena
- Personal best
- 69.96 m (1980)
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Encyclopedic overview
Ruth Fuchs (née Gamm, later Hellmann, 14 December 1946 – 20 September 2023) was a German politician and athlete. Fuchs, representing East Germany, was the winner of the women's javelin at the 1972 (Munich) and 1976 (Montreal) Olympic Games. She set the world record for the javelin six times during the 1970s.
Her personal best throw was 69.96 metres with the old javelin type, achieved in April 1980 in Split. This ranks her seventh among German old-type-javelin throwers, behind Petra Felke (who held the world record), Antje Kempe, Silke Renk, Beate Koch, Karen Forkel, and Tanja Damaske.
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