Dagmar Käsling

Dagmar Käsling (later Lühnenschloß, born 15 February 1947 in Magdeburg) is a former East German athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.

She competed for East Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the 4 × 400 metres where she won the gold medal with her teammates Rita Kühne, Helga Seidler and Monika Zehrt.

Käsling married sprinter Gerhard Lühnenschloß. After completing her Promotion A at Magdeburg University of Education in 1980 with a thesis on The applicability of training-specific speed and endurance exercises in school sports in grades 9 and 10 and the effects on the athletic performance development of this age group and defending her Dissertation B On questions of the attitude of our pupils in grades 4 to 10 to physical education and to the athletics, gymnastics and sports games courses at the same university in 1983, she was appointed Professor Lühnenschloß, a lecturer at the Institut für Sportwissenschaften of the Otto-von-Guericke-Universität in Magdeburg, where she taught and conducted research in the field of track and field training science. In 2005, she published the book "Schnelligkeit".

Publications with Dierks, B. (2005). Schnelligkeit. Hofmann. . with Wastl, P. (Ed.) (2008). Quo vadis olympische Leichtathletik? Probleme, Bilanzen, Perspektiven. Czwalina. . with Hirtz, P., Dierks, B., Hotz, A., Ludwig, G. & Vilkner, H.-J. (Eds.) (2012). Reaktion. Hofmann. .