She won a gold medal in the K-2 500 m event at the 1954 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mâcon.
She was born on September 14, 1933 in Budapest,Hungary.She left Hungary in 1956.She married in Basel/Switzerland in 1957 Franz Salamon, Dr.-Ing.
(Franz A.Salamon, Ph.D., Dr.-Ing., Biography:born on February 8, 1932 in Budapest, Hungary.
Father Austrian, mother Hungarian.
Deported to Bavaria/Germany in 1944.Returned to Hungary with his parents in 1946.Maturity at the "Fazekas MihĂ ly Gimnazium" in Budapest in 1950.
Diploma from the Budapesti MĂĽszaki Egyetem as Mechanical Engineer in 1954.
Worked in Switzerland from 1956 to 1960.Worked at SHELL in The Hague/The Netherlands from 1960 to 1962.Worked for Du Pont de Nemours in the USA and in Europe from 1962 to 1990.
Started as Technical Rep., followed as Techn.
Manager, Product Mgr., Customer Service Mgr., Director of Corporate Planning, Corporate Waste Management.
As employee of Du Pont, invented the "Fishtail Guide", for the waste free production of the TEFLON® PTFE unsintered tape.
Developed the membrane of TEFLON®, known as GORE-TEX®.
Produced the first Fiber Optics as CROFON®.
From 1990, he is working as independent consultant.
CEO of DINATAR S.A.
in 1995 in Geneva.
President and CEO of TEDE S.A./Zug/Switzerland in 2004.He lives in Geneva, Switzerland.He won the International HONDA NSX Trophy in 2000, 2001, and 2002.
) She gave birth to their son Jörg in Basel in 1958.She became Swiss in 1972.