Cornelia Oschkenat

Cornelia Oschkenat
Cornelia and Andreas Oschkenat 1987
nation	Germany
birthday	October 29, 1961
place of birth	Neubrandenburg ,  GDR
size	176 cm
Weight	65 kg
Career
discipline	Hurdles
society	SC Dynamo Berlin OSC Berlin
status	resigned
Medal table
World championships 0 × 1 × 1 × Indoor world championships 1 × 0 × 0 × European championships 0 × 1 × 0 × European Indoor Championships 3 × 0 × 0 ×
World championships Participant for the German Democratic Republic  silver 1987 Rome 4 × 100 m relay bronze 1987 Rome 100 m hurdles Indoor world championships Participant for the German Democratic Republic  gold 1987 Indianapolis 60 m hurdles European championships Participant for the German Democratic Republic  silver 1986 Stuttgart 100 m hurdles European Indoor Championships Participant for the German Democratic Republic  gold 1985 Piraeus 60 m hurdles gold 1986 Madrid 60 m hurdles gold 1988 Budapest 60 m hurdles

Cornelia Oschkenat (born Riefstahl ; born October 29, 1961 in Neubrandenburg ) is a former German athlete and Olympian who - starting for the GDR - was active in the 100-meter hurdles .

Life

At the European Championships in 1982 she was eliminated in advance. The following year, however, she was able to reach seventh place at the World Championships in Helsinki (12.95 s, with wind support). At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, she was able to because of the boycott not participate in the GDR. In 1985 she became European indoor champion . A year later Oschkenat was able to defend her title and at the European Championships in Stuttgart she won the silver medal (12.55 s).

In 1987 she was indoor world champion in Indianapolis . At the World Championships , which took place in Rome in the summer of the same year, she won bronze in the 100-meter hurdles (12.46 s) and silver in the 4 x 100-meter relay (together with Silke Gladisch , Kerstin Behrendt and Marlies Goehr ). In 1988 she became European indoor champion for the third time . At the Olympic Games in Seoul, she came eighth (13.73 s). In her last major international competition, she came fourth at the 1990 European Championships (12.94 s).

In 1984 she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and in 1986 in silver.

Cornelia Oschkenat started for SC Dynamo Berlin and OSC Berlin . When she competed, she was 1.76 m tall and weighed 65 kg. In the documents on state doping in the GDR that became public after the fall of the Wall , the name of Oschkenat was also found among the doped athletes.

In 1984 she married the hurdler Andreas Oschkenat . After the fall of the Wall, she opened a restaurant with her husband.

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 : Cornelia Oschkenat  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ New Germany , 1./2. September 1984, p. 4
2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 15, 1986, p. 6
3. ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 183
4. ^ GDR athletes have to return their house , Berliner Kurier March 1, 2001