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| Born |
18 March 1957 Nordhausen, Germany |
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| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||
| Weight | 48 kg (106 lb) | |||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||
| Sport | Artistic gymnastics | |||||||||
| Club | SV Halle | |||||||||
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Gitta Escher (later Gitta Sommer, born 18 March 1957) is a German former gymnast. She competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a bronze medal in the team competition. Individually she finished fifth in the vault and sixth in the floor exercise, balance beam and all-around.
After retirement from competition she worked as a gymnastics coach at her club SV Halle.