Birgit Meineke (swimmer)

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Federal Archives Image 183-Z0701-033, Birgit Meineke.jpg

Meineke (right) in 1981 with her trainer

Personal information
Surname: Birgit Meineke-Heukrodt
Nation: Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic
Swimming style (s) : Freestyle
Birthday: 4th July 1964
Place of birth: East Berlin
Medal table
Medals
GDR championships 1984

Birgit Meineke (married. Meineke-Heukrodt , born July 4, 1964 in Berlin ) is a former German swimmer who competed for the GDR . Meineke is a victim of state-prescribed doping in GDR competitive sports .

Career

She had her strongest time in the early 1980s, when she became European champion in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay in 1981 and in 1982 world champion in both the 100 m and the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay and the 4 × 100 m -Layer of layers. The highlight of her career, however, were the European Championships in 1983 , where she was able to win the title over 100 m freestyle, 200 m freestyle and with the three relays.

Furthermore, she was able to set several new world records in her career together with the GDR 4 × 100 meters and 4 × 200 meters freestyle relay and with the 4 × 100 meter relay relay.

At the Olympic Games, however, she could not win a medal because the GDR boycotted the 1984 Games in Los Angeles . After 1984 she ended her sporting career. In 1984 she received the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold.

GDR doping

Meineke's 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.

Meineke later suffered from massive health problems, in the form of a 1993 discovered liver Tumores that as a result of damage caused by the intake of anabolic steroids and systematically prescribed also to young athletes birth control pills can be explained.

During the GDR doping trial in 1998 before the Berlin district court , in which she appeared as a witness, she was confronted with the files and records of the former GDR trainers and doctors, who gave her ultimate certainty that she had been unknowingly doped.

After the sport

Birgit Meineke-Heukrodt married the Olympic canoeist Olaf Heukrodt and has a son. After her sports career, she became a doctor at the Berlin-Buch Clinic.

Web links

Commons : Birgit Meinecke  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New Germany . 1./2. September 1984, p. 4.
  2. ^ 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 .
  3. ↑ The East German Doping Machine ( Memento from March 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at the International Swimming Hall of Fame (English)
  4. ↑ 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 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zsdebatten.de
  5. ↑ a b Anabolic steroids as a gateway drug in adolescents. German Olympic Sports Confederation , January 3, 2007, accessed on May 11, 2014 .
  6. ^ Fear of the Future. Birgit Meineke talks about the processes and effects of the GDR doping machine (English)
  7. ↑ Matthias Krause: A fragile harmony. In: Berliner Zeitung . July 14, 1998, accessed July 10, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Matthias Krause: A fragile harmony. In: Berliner Zeitung . July 14, 1998, accessed July 10, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Meineke, Birgit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin