Barbara Krause (swimmer)

Barbara Krause
Barbara Krause (1979)
Personal information
Surname:	Barbara Krause
Nation:	German Democratic Republic
Swimming style (s) :	Freestyle
Birthday:	July 7, 1959
Place of birth:	East Berlin
Size:	1.80 m
Medal table

Barbara Krause (born July 7, 1959 in East Berlin ) is a former German swimmer and multiple Olympic champion who competed for the GDR . Krause is a victim of state-prescribed doping in GDR competitive sports .

Career

She won her first title at the Swimming World Championships in Cali in 1975 with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay . In 1977 she was then over 100 m freestyle and with the two relays of the GDR three-time European champion. The following year, the World Championship in 1978, which was otherwise disappointing for the GDR, was followed by the world championship title in the 100 m freestyle. The conclusion and highlight of her career followed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow , when she became Olympic champion in the 100 m freestyle, 200 m freestyle and with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay.

She was also able to improve the world record over 100 meters freestyle at the 1978 World Championships and at the 1980 Olympic Games three times and the world record over 200 meters freestyle in 1978 in Berlin once.

In 1988 she was inducted into the international swimming pool 's hall of fame . In addition, she received the Patriotic Order of Merit several times in the GDR .

Private

Barbara Krause is married to the former German swimmer Lutz Wanja .

doping

Barbara Krause (July 1980)

Their successes, like those of many other GDR top athletes, must be viewed in a different light due to the systematic administration of illegal performance-enhancing substances by GDR sports officials, doctors and trainers

The 1976 Olympics in Montreal she missed officially due to illness while her but in fact the participation was denied by the East German team doctors on the basis of a calculated incorrectly doping dose and a feared positive doping test involved.

Barbara Krause experienced a particular form of the effects as the most likely consequence of anabolic steroid use in giving birth to two severely disabled children.

literature

• Klaus Gallinat, Olaf W. Reimann:  Krause, Barbara . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Barbara Krause  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Barbara Krause in the International Swimming Hall of Fame (English)
• Barbara Krause (swimmer) in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
• Barbara Krause in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kerstin Eva Dreher: Doping in the GDR. (No longer available online.) In: Planet Wissen . Archived from the original on October 23, 2008 ; accessed on May 10, 2014 . 
2. ^ "The East German Doping Machine" ( Memento from March 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at the International Swimming Hall of Fame (English)
3. ↑ Protocol of telephone conversations ( memento of the original from August 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. with former GDR swimmers about the systematic administration of doping drugs 
4. ↑ "East Germany's Olympic 'miracle'" ( Memento from November 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at cbc.ca
5. ^ Anne Rotthaus and Andrea Brettner: Embarrassing dimensions. In: Focus Online . August 16, 1993, accessed May 10, 2014 . 
6. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/sport/sind-die-behavior-ihrer-kinder-spaethaben-des-anabolika-konsums/115746.html
7. ↑ Carolin Emcke and Udo Ludwig: DOPING: Blue beans by Dr. Mabuse . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 2000 ( online ).
8. ↑ https://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/Christiane+Sommer+Knacke/1/2965.html