Petra Uhlig was among the East German handball team at the 1976 Montréal Olympics that lost the unofficial “final” of the round-robin tournament against the Soviet Union, 14-11, and earned the silver medal. Four years later at Moskva she added a bronze medal. In 1971, 1975 and 1978 she played on winning World Championship teams. She was internationally capped in 282 matches scoring 487 goals.
Domestically, Uhlig played with SC Leipzig, helping them to win 10 national titles and the European Champions Cup in 1974. In 1984, she was elected Handball Player of the Year. Her daughter Alexandra became a handball professional.
East Germany