Ellen Streidt

Olympic medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  East Germany
Gold medal – first place 1976 Montreal 4 × 400 m
Bronze medal – third place 1976 Montreal 400 m

Ellen Streidt (née Stropahl later Wendland, born 27 July 1952 in Wittstock, Bezirk Potsdam) is a retired East German sprinter who specialised in the 200 metres and 400 metres.

At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, she finished fourth in the 200m final, just one one-hundredth of a second behind bronze medallist Irena Szwesinska. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, she won the bronze medal in the 400 metres and a gold medal in the 4 × 400 metres with her teammates Brigitte Rohde, Christina Brehmer and Doris Maletzki.[1]