Manuela Stellmach
Manuela Stellmach 
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Manuela Stellmach (2nd from right) at the GDR Swimming Championships in Erfurt (1987) |
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| Surname: | Manuela Stellmach | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 German Democratic Republic (until 1990) Germany
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| Swimming style (s) : | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birthday: | February 22, 1970 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | East Berlin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Size: | 1.75 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Manuela Stellmach (born February 22, 1970 in Berlin ) is a former German swimmer who competed both for the GDR and for Germany after reunification .
Career
The freestyle specialist achieved her greatest successes with the relays. In 1985 she became European champion over 4 × 100 meters freestyle with the GDR relay , in 1986 world champion over 4 × 100 meters and 4 × 200 meters freestyle and in 1988 in Seoul together with Kristin Otto , Katrin Meißner and Daniela Hunger, Olympic champion with the 4 × 100 Meter freestyle relay. On the individual routes she was mostly in the shadow of Heike Friedrich . The only single success was the title over 200 m freestyle at the European Championships in 1989 in Bonn .
Together with the GDR freestyle relay, she was able to improve the world record of 4 × 200 meters at the 1986 World Swimming Championships in Madrid and at the 1987 European Swimming Championships in Strasbourg .
Manuela Stellmach was one of the few swimmers from the GDR who continued to be successful after the fall of the Wall. She won titles at world and European championships with German relay teams and a bronze medal at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. For this she was awarded the silver bay leaf on June 23, 1993.
She ended her career in 1994.
In 1986 she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and in 1988 in gold.
Relation to GDR doping
In the course of the GDR doping trial, where she was summoned as a witness before the Berlin Regional Court , it became known, among other things, that Volker Frischke , who was Stellmach's trainer in the GDR's B national squad in the 1980s, administered her anabolic steroids .
Web links
- Manuela Stellmach in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
- Manuela Stellmach in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V-,> VIBSS: The Federal President and his tasks in the field of sport: .... on June 23, 1993, Federal President von Weizsäcker ... awarded disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 1992, with the silver bay leaf ...
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 15, 1986, p. 7
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, 12./13. November 1988, p. 4
- ^ "Important minutes without signature" in the Berliner Zeitung , June 9, 1998; As of May 7, 2009
- ^ "Die Meister-Macher" online at the Berliner Zeitung , March 19, 1998; As of May 7, 2009 .
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| SURNAME | Stellmach, Manuela |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |