Bettine Jahn

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Bettine Jahn (right) wins the GDR championships in 1983 ahead of Kerstin Knabe

Bettine Jahn , b. Gärtz (born August 3, 1958 in Magdeburg ) is a former German athlete and Olympic participant who - starting for the GDR - won the gold medal in the 100-meter hurdles at the 1983 World Championships .

Life

She started at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow and finished seventh there. In 1982 she became European indoor champion over 60 meter hurdles and reached fourth place outdoors at the European championships . The following year, Jahn was able to defend her European championship title in Budapest . In Helsinki she was then world champion (12.35 s, with wind support). In addition, she won the European Cup in London that year and on June 8, 1983 in Berlin set the German record in 12.42 seconds, which is still valid today.

At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles she could because of the boycott not participate in the GDR. In 1985 she became the mother of a daughter. She tried a comeback, but without much success. In 1988 she ended her active career. Bettine Jahn started for SC Karl-Marx-Stadt and trained with Claus Eidam and Bernd Schubert . When she competed, she was 1.70 m tall and weighed 61 kg.

In the documents on state doping in the GDR that became public after reunification , the name of Jahn was also found among the doped athletes. In 1997, during a testimony in the run-up to the Ewald / Höppner trial, she stated that a conversation took place with her trainer Eidam in 1977/1978, who had told her that without performance-enhancing medication one would not have a chance of achieving world standards. She then decided voluntarily and without coercion to take these means to improve performance. In 1983 - the year of her German record - she also received injections in preparation for the high point of the year (World Cup in Helsinki in August 1983).

Jahn first studied textile technology in Chemnitz and graduated in 1991 with a diploma. After the end of the GDR, in view of the decline of the Saxon textile industry, she could not find work and switched to banking. There she became branch manager in Chemnitz.

Awards (selection)

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.

Web links

Commons : Bettine Jahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 182
  2. ↑ Jutta Heess, Markus Völker: The false records , the daily newspaper December 23, 2005
personal data
SURNAME Jahn, Bettine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gärtz, Bettine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and Olympic participant
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg