Brunhilde Hendrix [SEP] date of birth
Brunhilde Hendrix
Brunhilde Hendrix (2 August 1938 in Langenzenn – 28 November 1995 in Sachsen bei Ansbach) is a West German athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.
Hendrix competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy in the 4 x 100 metres where she won the Silver medal with her teammates Martha Langbein, Anni Biechl and Jutta Heine.
Both her parents (mother Marie Dollinger and father Friedrich Hendrix) were successful athletes who competed in Olympic Games, too.
, two 200 m titles (1931 and 1933), and a single 100 m title in 1932. She was awarded the Golden Needle honour by the Deutscher Leichtathletik-Verband for her achievements in athletics.
Career Later life.
Following her retirement from the sport, in 1937 she married Friedrich Hendrix, another German Olympic sprinter silver medallist, and the couple had a child in 1938, Brunhilde Hendrix. Friedrich died in 1941 during Operation Barbarossa in World War II. Brunhilde followed in her parents footsteps and represented Germany