Astrid Strauss
Astrid Strauss 
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Astrid Strauss at the GDR Swimming Championships in Gera (1983) |
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| Surname: | Astrid Strauss | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 German Democratic Republic
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| Swimming style (s) : | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birthday: | December 24, 1968 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Berlin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Size: | 1.87 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 82 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Astrid Strauss (born December 24, 1968 in Berlin ) is a former German swimmer .
Career
In the eighties she was one of the most successful swimmers in the middle distance. She became European champion for the first time in 1983 when she won the title in the 400 m and 800 m freestyle as well as with the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay of the GDR . She was also able to record further successes at the next European championships, in 1986 she became world champion with the 4 × 200 m relay and over 800 m. At the Olympic Games she was unlucky that the GDR boycotted the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles at its peak, so that she only won a silver medal in the 800 m at the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul .
In 1986 she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold and in 1984 and 1988 in silver.
After the reunification she was still active in swimming. But after missing the Olympic qualification in 1992 and a doping affair , she ended her swimming career in 1993.
doping
In the DDR
She received doping substances from her trainer Wolfgang Sack as part of the state compulsory doping in the GDR .
1992
In the course of the Olympic qualification for Barcelona in 1992, Astrid Strauss in Manfred Donike's institute discovered an excessive testosterone value (12.7 instead of the permitted value of 6.0), whereupon she was banned for a long time. At that time, she herself blamed the excessive consumption of strawberry punch for the high content of the male hormone.
Records
| German Records (1) | |||
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| 400 m freestyle (short course) | 04: 02.05 min | February 8, 1987 | Bonn |
| 800 m freestyle (short course) | 08: 15.34 min | February 6, 1987 | Bonn |
| (As of August 2, 2008) | |||
Web links
- Astrid Strauss in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 15, 1986, p. 7
- ^ New Germany, 1./2. September 1984, p. 4
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, 12./13. November 1988, p. 4
- ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 59
- ↑ "The Strauss doping case: Who has something to hide?", Sport-Bild from May 12, 1993, p. 41
- ^ "Swimming: Astrid Strauss was doped" ( Memento from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in the Hamburger Abendblatt
- ↑ "damning condemnation of" the Berliner Zeitung
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| SURNAME | Strauss, Astrid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |