Liese Prokop
Foto: June, 2006
Interior Minister of Austria
In office 22 December, 2004 – 31 December, 2006
President	Heinz Fischer
Chancellor	Wolfgang Schüssel
Preceded by	Günther Platter
Succeeded by	Wolfgang Schüssel
Born	27 March 1941(1941-03-27) Vienna, Austria
Died	31 December 2006 (aged 65) Sankt Pölten, Austria
Political party	ÖVP
Religion	Roman Catholic

Medal record
Competitor for  Austria
Women’s Athletics
Olympic Games
Silver	1968 Mexico City	Pentathlon
European Championships
Gold	1969 Athens	Pentathlon
Universiade
Gold	1967 Tokyo	Pentathlon

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

Born as Liese Sykora in Vienna, she competed for Austria in the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico in the Pentathlon where she won the silver medal. In 1965 she married her former coach, Gunnar Prokop. The couple had two sons and a daughter.

Later she started a political career in Lower Austria. Since December 2004 she had been Austrian Minister of the Interior for the conservative People's Party (ÖVP).

She died unexpectedly of aortic dissection while being rushed to a Sankt Pölten hospital on New Year's Eve, 2006.

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

[edit] References

• International Herald Tribune (January 1, 2007).
• sports-reference

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

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