Anke Möhring
Anke Möhring 
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| Surname: | Anke Möhring | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 German Democratic Republic ( until 1990 ) Germany
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| Swimming style (s) : | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birthday: | August 28, 1969 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Magdeburg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Size: | 1.81 m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 69 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Anke Möhring (born August 28, 1969 in Magdeburg ) is a former German swimmer who competed for the GDR .
Her strengths lay on the long stretches and that's where she was able to achieve her successes. In 1985 she became European champion in the 800 m freestyle ahead of her club colleague Astrid Strauss . In 1989 she won the 400 meter freestyle as well as the 800 meter freestyle at the European Championships. At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 , she won the bronze medal over 400 meters, for which she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.
Records
| German Records (1) | |||
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| 400 m freestyle | 04: 05.84 min | 17th August 1989 | Bonn |
| 800 m freestyle | 08: 19.53 min | August 22, 1987 | Strasbourg |
| (As of August 1, 2008) | |||
Doping in the GDR
Her award as Swimmer of the Year 1989 was struck from the lists of the best in 2013 because of the systematic and state-decreed doping in swimming in the GDR as well as in all other GDR swimmers who had been awarded the title since 1973.
Web links
- Anke Möhring in the Swimrankings.net database (English)
- Anke Möhring in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Swimmer of the Year": Kristin Otto loses her award Spiegel Online, December 3, 2013
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| SURNAME | Möhring, Anke |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |