Änne Kuhlmann

Änne Kuhlmann

Personal information
Born	c. 1900s
Sport
Sport	Track and field athletics
Event(s)	high jump, long jump
Club	SC Preußen Münster
Achievements and titles
National finals	1922: high jump 1923: high jump

Änne Kuhlmann (born c. 1900s) was a German athletics competitor during the early 1920s, during the earliest era of women's athletics in Germany. She was a member of SC Preußen Münster and was specialized in the high jump and also competed in the long jump. She had international successes and was national champion.

Biography

During the early 1920s Germany (as a national team) didn't compete yet at the international women's athletics competitions that existed. At the earliest international club-organized women's competitions representing German region Westphalia, Kuhlmann had successes in 1923 and 1924. In 1923 she won at the 1923 Twente–Westphalia athletics competition in Enschede, the Netherlands the high jump event with a height of 1.35 metres, ahead of the Dutch Joosten. She also competed in the long jump and finished fourth. The following year at the 1924 Westphalia–Twente athletics competition in Münster she finished second in the high jump, with the same height of 1.30 metres as Joosten.

Kuhlmann became at the German Athletics Championships national champion in 1922 in the high jump with a height of 1.39 metres. In 1923 she won the bronze medal behind Anni Müller and Leni Junker.