After a year of absence at the big tournaments (though she did become East-German Champion that year ), she returned next year, better than ever before. At the World Sprint Championships of 1971 in Inzell Schleiermacher wins her first and only international title, becoming the successor of Lyudmila Titova from the Soviet Union. Over the course of her career, Schleiermacher skated one official world record:
Lyudmila Titova
Schleiermacher