Anke Behmer
Anke Behmer (born father ; born June 5, 1961 in Stavenhagen ) is a former German athlete who - starting for the GDR - was one of the world's best heptathletes in the 1980s and early 1990s .
Life
In 1980, after the introduction of the heptathlon, she became the first female GDR champion. At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, she was able to because of the boycott not participate in the GDR. In 1986 she married the Neubrandenburg triple jumper Bodo Behmer and since then has competed under her new name. Her greatest successes were winning the 1986 European Championship in Stuttgart and the bronze medal at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul with a personal best (6858 points, individual performances: 13.20 s - 1.83 m - 14.20 m - 23.10 s - 6.68 m - 44.54 m - 2: 04.20 min). For her sporting success in Seoul she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. In 1984 she received this medal in silver.
Anke Behmer started for SC Neubrandenburg and trained with Klaus Baarck . When she competed, she was 1.74 m tall and weighed 62 kg. In the documents on state doping in the GDR that became public after the reunification , the name of Behmer was also found among the doped athletes. From 1980 to 1985 she was an unofficial employee of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR. Since retiring from active sport, she has been running a physiotherapy practice in Neubrandenburg.
Further successes in the heptathlon
- 1982, European Championships : 4th place (6389 points)
- 1983, World Championships : 3rd place (6532 points)
- 1986, European Championships : 1st place (6717 points, individual performances: 13.25 s - 1.77 m - 14.50 m - 23.46 s - 6.79 m - 40.24 m - 2: 03.96 min)
- 1987, World Championships : 4th place (6460 points)
literature
- zurgams (editor): Time leaps. 35 years of the Mösle all-around meeting in Götzis. Bucher Verlag, Hohenems 2009, ISBN 978-3-902679-23-9 .
- Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.
Web links
- Anke Behmer in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Anke Behmer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , 12./13. November 1988, p. 4
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, October 15, 1986, p. 7
- ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 181
- ↑ Anke father: IM “Marion Albrecht”. Norddeutscher Rundfunk, archived from the original on May 9, 2012 ; Retrieved October 12, 2012 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Behmer, Anke |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Father, Anke |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athlete (all-around) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th June 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stavenhagen |