Liese Prokop

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Liese Prokop
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Foto: June, 2006
Interior Minister of Austria
In office
22 December 2004 – 31 December 2006
President Heinz Fischer
Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel
Preceded by Ernst Strasser
Succeeded by Wolfgang Schüssel (acting), Günther Platter
Personal details
Born (1941-03-27)27 March 1941
Tulln District, Austria
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Sankt Pölten, Austria
Political party ÖVP
Alma mater University of Vienna
Religion Roman Catholic
Liese Prokop
Medal record
Representing  Austria
Women’s Athletics
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1968 Mexico City Pentathlon
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 1969 Athens Pentathlon
Universiade
Gold medal – first place 1967 Tokyo Pentathlon

Liesel ("Liese") Prokop-Sykora (27 March 1941 — 31 December 2006) was an Austrian athlete who competed mainly in the pentathlon and, later in her life, a politician.

Biography

Born as Liese Sykora in Tulln District, Lower Austria, on 27 March 1941, she graduated from the University of Vienna with a degree in biology and sport.[1][2] In 1965 she married her former coach, Gunnar Prokop. The couple had two sons and a daughter.[2] in 1967, she became student world champion in Tokyo.[2] She competed for Austria in the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico in the Pentathlon where she won the silver medal.[3] In 1969, she became European champion in Athens, breaking the world pentathlon record.[2] In addition, she was Austrian champion in pentathlon, long jump, high jump, hurdles, relay and shot putting.[2]

Prokop began her political career in 1969 and became a member of the Parliament of Lower Austria.[4] She served as regional minister from 1981 to 1992 and vice president of Lower Austria during the period between 1992 and 2004.[4]

She joined Assembly of European Regions (AER) in 1996 and held different administrative positions in the AER, including the president of the AER which she assumed from 2001 to 2004.[4] Later she was made honorary president of the assembly.[4]

Beginning in December 2004 she was Austrian minister of interior for the conservative ÖVP, becoming Austria's first female interior minister.[3][5] She served in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Wolfgang Schuessel until her death on 31 December 2006.[3] She died unexpectedly of aortic dissection while being rushed to a Sankt Pölten hospital on New Year's Eve, 2006.[3] Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel became acting interior minister upon this incident.[6]

She was the sister of Maria Sykora, who competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics,[1] and aunt of Winter Olympic bronze medalist Thomas Sykora.

References

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Awards
Preceded by Austrian Sportspersonality of the year
1969		 Succeeded by
Austria Karl Schranz
Political offices
Preceded by Interior Minister of Austria
2004 – 2006		 Succeeded by
Günther Platter
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