Christine Wachtel

Christine Wachtel at the GDR championships in 1985

Christine Wachtel (married Guth ; born January 6, 1965 in Altentreptow ) is a former German athlete who won the silver medal in the 800-meter run for the GDR at the 1988 Olympic Games . She was also three times indoor world champion. Wachtel received anabolic steroids as part of the state enforced doping in GDR competitive sports .

Life

At the Junior European Championships , she won silver in the 800-meter run (2: 00.42 min) and gold in the GDR's 4-by-400-meter relay. In 1985 she was third in the European Cup and first in the World Cup . In Stuttgart, she finished eighth at the 1986 European Championships .

In 1987 Wachtel was European indoor champion in Liévin ahead of her training mate Sigrun Wodars . The duel between the two would shape the 800-meter course in the years that followed. Shortly after the European indoor championship title, Wachtel also won the gold medal at the first indoor world championships in Indianapolis. In the open air season she was runner-up behind Wodar's world champion in Rome . In 1: 55.32 minutes she set her personal best here.

Christine Wachtel 1987, right Sigrun Wodars

In 1988 Wachtel set a new indoor world record in 1: 56.40 minutes in Vienna. In Seoul she won silver at the Olympic Games (1: 56.64 min), again behind Wodars. In 1989 she defended her indoor world title in Budapest . In the summer of this year she started with the 4 x 400 meter relay of the GDR and reached places one and two at the European Cup and World Cup . In 1990 Wachtel set a new world record over 1000 meters with 2: 30.67 minutes, which was valid until 1996 and is still the best time in Germany. At the European Championships that year she won the silver medal, again behind Wodars.

In Seville in 1991, Wachtel became indoor world champion for the third time in a row . At the World Championships in Tokyo, she finished sixth over 800 meters and won bronze in the German 4 x 400 meter relay (3: 21.25 min). At the 1992 Olympic Games , the 1993 World Championships and the 1994 European Championships , she did not reach the final.

Christine Wachtel trained at SC Neubrandenburg under coach Walter Gladrow . In her active time she was 1.66 m tall and 66 kg. Christine Wachtel trained as a business clerk and, after finishing her sporting career, runs a pizza bakery in Neubrandenburg . In 1986 and 1988 she was awarded the Silver Patriotic Order of Merit .

Doping in the GDR

In 1997, during a witness hearing at the Central Investigative Agency for Government and Association Crime , she had taken oral Turinabol and STS tablets to improve performance between 1985 and around 1990 without her knowing that they were anabolic steroids . The district sports doctor and section doctor in athletics Armin Stemmler ( IM "Dietrich Beyreuther") received the substances from the sports medical service and passed them on to Wachtel.

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 : Christine Wachtel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Christine Wachtel in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Christine Wachtel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 15, 1986, p. 7
2. ↑ Neues Deutschland, 12./13. November 1988, p. 4
3. ↑ Jutta Heess, Markus Völker: The false records , the daily newspaper December 23, 2005
4. ↑ ZERV protocol (PDF; 2.6 MB) , November 4, 1997. In: Das DDR-Erbe des SC Neubrandenburg , NDR 2012
5. ↑ http://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/mecklenburg-vorpommern/stasi_doping/Armin-Stemmler-IM-Dietrich-Beyreuther-,scnstemmler101.html ( Memento from June 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive )