Antje Kempe
Antje Kempe , married from 1984 to Zöllkau, (born June 23, 1963 in Saalfeld / Saale ) is a former German athlete who - starting for the GDR - won the silver medal in the javelin throw at the 1982 European Championships .
Sports career
She won silver (60.60 m) at the European Athletics Junior Championships in 1981. She was also second a year later at the European Championships in Athens in 1982 (65.12 - 67.94 m - 62.08 - 58.92 - 57.10 - 57.42). On May 22, 1983, she set a GDR record in Sofia with 71.00 m and was the first German woman to exceed the 70-meter mark (world record at that time: 74.20 m, Sofia Sakorafa , Greece ). At the World Championships in Helsinki in 1983 she was eleventh (58.82 m) and at the European Cup 1983 second. She achieved her personal best of 72.16 m in 1984.
The GDR champion of 1983 started for SC Motor Jena and later for OSC Berlin . After the fall of the Berlin Wall, she started working for MTG Mannheim in 1990 . In her active time she was 1.72 m tall and 71 kg. In the documents on state doping in the GDR that became public after reunification , the name of Kempe was also found among the doped athletes. She and Helge Zöllkau have a son.
In 1984 she was awarded the Silver Patriotic Order of Merit .
literature
- Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.
Individual evidence
- ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 182
- ^ New Germany , 1./2. September 1984, p. 4
Web links
- Athlete portrait of Antje Kempe ( memento from April 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at the IAAF (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kempe, Antje |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zöllkau, Antje |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saalfeld / Saale |