Antje Harvey

Antje Misersky
Full name	Antje Harvey (née Misersky)
nation	DDR Germany
birthday	10th May 1967 (age 53)
place of birth	Magdeburg ,  GDR
size	173 cm
Weight	67 kg
Career
discipline	Cross-country skiing biathlon
society	SC Motor Zella-Mehlis BSG Chemie Ilmenau WSV Oberhof 05
National squad	since 1984
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals (biathlon) 1 × 3 × 0 × World Championship medals (biathlon) 1 × 0 × 1 × World Championship medals (cross-country skiing) 0 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold 1992 Albertville singles silver 1992 Albertville sprint silver 1992 Albertville Season silver 1994 Lillehammer Season  Biathlon world championships bronze 1991 Lahti Season gold 1995 Antholz Season  Nordic World Ski Championships bronze 1985 Seefeld Season
Placements in the biathlon world cup Debut in the World Cup 1990 World Cup victories 5 (including 1 season) Overall World Cup 5. ( 1990/91 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  singles 2 0 1  sprint 1 3 1  Season 1 2 0
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup Debut in the World Cup December 18, 1984 (?)

Antje Harvey , née Misersky (born May 10, 1967 in Magdeburg ), is a former German cross-country skier and biathlete . When her father refused to give his daughter doping substances as part of the state-decreed doping in GDR competitive sports, her cross-country skiing career in the GDR was initially over. In 1989 she was reassigned to the ASK Oberhof squad to help build a GDR national team in the emerging women's biathlon.

Career

Antje Misersky began as a cross-country skier and won the bronze medal with the GDR relay at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld in 1985 . When her father Henner Misersky , who worked as a cross-country ski trainer for the East German team until 1985, refused to give his daughter the doping drugs prescribed for A-squad , he was dismissed without notice in 1985. Antje Misersky herself resigned - under pressure - from the children's and youth sports school. and was removed from the squad of SC Motor Zella-Mehlis. She found a sporty abode at BSG Chemie Ilmenau for several years .

In the summer of 1989 at the latest, Antje Misersky was taken over into the performance squad of ASK Vorwärts Oberhof in order to help build a competitive GDR selection in the emerging women's biathlon. As a result, she started in the 1989/90 winter sports season in the Biathlon World Cup for the GDR, initially with rather moderate success. In the following season she won her first international championship medal with bronze at the biathlon world championships in Lahti together with Uschi Disl and Kerstin Moring in the 3x5 km relay. At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , Antje Misersky won gold over 15 km, silver over 7.5 km and with the relay, and silver with the relay at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer . At the 1995 World Championships in Antholz , she won gold with the relay. In the World Cup , she achieved four victories and four other podium places.

For her success at the 1992 Winter Olympics, she received the Silver Laurel Leaf on June 23, 1993.

In the spring of 1993 she married Ian Harvey , whom she had met the year before on a trip to America, and has since started under the name Harvey. She retired in 1995 from the competitive sport back and lives with her husband and two daughters in Heber City ( Utah ), where she runs with her husband, a sports shop. In 2000 she became a citizen of the United States . She became a Mormon in 2002 .

In 2005 Antje Harvey was awarded the Heidi-Krieger-Medal , an award from the Association for Doping Victims Aid , for her courageous attitude in Berlin . In 2012 she and her father were inducted into the Hall of Fame of German Sports .

Biathlon World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place	2	1			1	4th
2nd place		3			2	5
3rd place	1	1				2
Top 10	6th	8th			4th	18th
Scoring	14th	15th			4th	33
Starts	16	19th			4th	39
Status: end of career, data may be incomplete

literature

• Frank Ketterer: A price for saying no , In: Die Tageszeitung from July 22, 2005. Retrieved on April 7, 2010.
• Short biography for:  Antje Misersky . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Antje Harvey in the database of the IBU (English)
• Antje Harvey in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Antje Harvey in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait, dates and biography of Antje Harvey in the Hall of Fame of German Sports
• For Antje Harvey only the family counts www.rp-online.de, January 16, 2001. Accessed April 7, 2010.
• Olympic champion Antje Harvey-Misersky on the fall of the wall, doping and German competitive sport waiting for a word of apology , Berliner Zeitung , November 9, 1999
• Interview , February 13, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barbara Bürer , Nils Klawitter: Since 1990, the West has adorned itself with athletes from GDR production. Their creators are now on trial. Die Zeit , March 19, 1998, accessed on April 1, 2010 (for a fee). 
2. ↑ Results on skisport.com
3. ↑ Silver bay leaf. The Federal President , accessed on March 14, 2020 ( ... on June 23, 1993 Federal President von Weizsäcker awarded disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the 1992 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with the silver laurel leaf ...). 
4. ↑ German Mormon inducted into "Hall of Fame". Latter-day Saint Church of Jesus Christ , June 21, 2012, accessed March 24, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Grit Hartmann: Not at any price. Antje Harvey-Misersky receives the Heidi-Krieger-Medal. In: Berliner Zeitung . July 21, 2005, accessed April 1, 2010 . 
6. ^ Friedhard Teuffel: Award for doping victims. In: Der Tagesspiegel . July 22, 2005, accessed November 26, 2014 .