Classify German track star Silke-Beate Knoll

[danceofpales]

I saw this striking German track star(ran in the late 80's and into the 90's) named Silke-Beate Knoll, and found her face to be very distinctive and familiar to me. She was born in Germany in late 1966 or 1967, possibly in Rotweil near the French and Swiss borders(it said she started running there when young), but it's not a confirmed birth town.

Here's a link to her pic.

http://www.aviport.net/hamster/hamso...ke_knoll02.jpg

I have a few questions:

(1) Have any of you heard of her? Any analysis, or ANY OTHER KIND OF INFORMATION you may know about her would be greatly appreciated.

(2) Also, do you suspect that her ancestry is fully German?

(3) Is this type of face common to Germans, or any other nationality for that matter? Thanks

[Mac Seafraidh]

Nordic

[Combatent]

I saw this striking German track star(ran in the late 80's and into the 90's) named Silke-Beate Knoll, and found her face to be very distinctive and familiar to me. She was born in Germany in late 1966 or 1967, possibly in Rotweil near the French and Swiss borders(it said she started running there when young), but it's not a confirmed birth town.

Here's a link to her pic.

http://www.aviport.net/hamster/hamso...ke_knoll02.jpg

I have a few questions:

(1) Have any of you heard of her? Any analysis, or ANY OTHER KIND OF INFORMATION you may know about her would be greatly appreciated.

(2) Also, do you suspect that her ancestry is fully German?

(3) Is this type of face common to Germans, or any other nationality for that matter? Thanks

I think she's Nordic but with a strong East European strains. It is strange if really was born near the French and Swiss border.

[Zimmer Mann]

I wouldn't classify her as Nordic in the classic sense. Her chin isn't developed enough. Her nose is too fleshy and low rooted with too little space to her top lip. Her eyes look deep set and a little narrow. Her head overall appears too short and her face looks softer than the more rigid and sharp construction of the Hallstatt face. I might say Danubian mix or possible Borreby/Nordic. Here is what a Hallstatt looks like.

[trajan70]

I think she's Nordic but with a strong East European strains. It is strange if really was born near the French and Swiss border.

I live in a swabian town 20 kilometers south of Rottweil and I agree with you that she looks not common for this area. If I would see her in a swabian town i would bet that she is not fully of swabian descent but has some eastern blood.

In South German towns there are many descentants of eastern german refugees from East Prussia, Pommerania, Silesia etc. who came after WWII; i grew up in a neighborhood where many of those eastern german descendants lived . So I would say she is one of them.

[Agrippa]

She is Nordid-Osteuropid.

[Butzebär]

Silke was born in Rottweil 21.2.67, but spend her childhood and youth in Celle, where she graduated and became german junior champion. 1987 she joined the track club in Hamm, and studied slawistic sciences. 1988 she ran a world record in the 4 x 100 indoor relay.
She took part in three olympic games, won the european championships 4 x 100 relay and won 21 german championships.
1990 she joined the track club olympia dortmund, until her retirement in 1997. She studied public relations and marketing and had good jobs around Dortmund to the present.

[Butzebär]

News from Silke Knoll: At the age of 11 she came to Celle and joined the track club MTV Celle, where she competed in various disciplines like sprint, pentathlon and relays.
After graduatig 1987, she went to Hamm, studied Slawistic and Anglistic Sciences and had great success in 200 m and relays: german championships and 1988 the World indoor record 4x 200 relay. Then came her Dortmund career(look above),retired 1997, meanwhile she changed her profession to Public Relations and Economy. She married 2001, and keeps on making fitness 2 times a week. 2004, aged 37, she ran the 4x100 relay with her new club lac dortmund at the german championships and finished 7th place!!!!

[Tryggvi]

Nordic-West Baltic intermediate. Very pretty.

[Frans_Jozef]

Noric-Osteuropid type.

Njörd, your taste in some particular blond women is frightening pityful, seemingly the aesthetic tastes of my best friends aren't up to high standards...

Luckily I have two pictures of Susanne Freytag to counteract the praise here for such plainness - remember her? she's from our golden eighties, one of the two female vocalists of synth-pop group Propaganda and imo the prettiest, just take a look if you've a chance to their videoclip for their hit song Duel....