Dagmar Rabbit

Dagmar Rabbit
Dagmar Hase (right at the front) at the GDR swimming championships in Dresden (1990)
Personal information
Surname:	Dagmar Rabbit
Nation:	German Democratic Republic (until 1990) Germany
Swimming style (s) :	Freestyle, back
Birthday:	22nd December 1969
Place of birth:	Quedlinburg
Size:	1.83 m
Weight:	62 kg
Medal table

Dagmar Hase (born December 22, 1969 in Quedlinburg ) is a former German swimmer and Olympic champion.

Career

At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona , Dagmar Hase beat defending champion and top favorite Janet Evans from the USA over 400 meters freestyle .

At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , Hase finished second over the same distance. Hase won two other silver medals in the 800 meter freestyle and the 4 × 200 meter freestyle relay. She also won a bronze medal in the 200 meters freestyle.

Measured by her Olympic medals, the rabbit, who is far more successful than swimmers like Franziska van Almsick or Sandra Völker in terms of her fame , only caused a greater stir in a television interview following her Olympic victory in Barcelona, ​​in which she described the unfair treatment of her swimming colleague and friend Astrid Strauss denounced by German sports officials.

In 1994 Dagmar Hase hit the headlines again when she ceded her starting place on the 200-meter freestyle course to her team-mate Franziska van Almsick at the World Swimming Championships in Rome. The Berliner, who started as the German hope for a gold medal on this route, had missed the final with the ninth fastest time, one place behind Hase. So van Almsick was able to start and won the gold medal with a new world record time. Bunny, on the other hand, became a tragic figure when she also finished ninth in the 400-meter freestyle. Team colleague Jana Henke , who qualified eighth , did not renounce in favor of Olympic champion Hase, took her right to start and came in sixth. Initially it was reported that Hase had received a vacation trip from the sponsor of the German Swimming Association in recognition of her selfless attitude . 25 years later, she denied this and stated that she had only received a bouquet of flowers.

GDR doping

As with many other former GDR top swimmers, for example Kristin Otto , Heike Friedrich , Sylvia Gerasch or Daniela Hunger , Dagmar Hase was also accused of the 1998 doping trial against former GDR trainers Dieter Lindemann and Volker Frischke systematic doping between 1982 and 1988, the accusation of taking illegal performance-enhancing substances and the unlawful successes achieved with them.

After reunification, it became known that, in addition to Kristin Otto , Heike Friedrich and Daniela Hunger , Hase also took illegal performance-enhancing substances at the 1989 European Swimming Championships in Bonn . The testosterone content of women corresponded to that of a normal man and was thus far above the normal female value. Dagmar Hase rejected these allegations.

resignation

Dagmar Hase retired from active swimming in 1998. She is now a junior coach at SC Magdeburg , for whom she started earlier.

Awards

• 1992 Bambi
• 1992 Silver bay leaf
• In 1993 Dagmar Hase was named Magdeburg of the Year .
• In 1998 Hase received an award for tolerance and fair play.
• A fuchsia was named after her.

literature

• Volker Kluge :  Hase, Dagmar . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Eternal best list of swimming in Germany
• Dagmar Hase in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
• Dagmar Hase in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus Schielke: Dagmar Hase, swimmer vacated the starting place. In: berliner-zeitung.de. Berliner Zeitung , September 7, 1994, accessed on September 6, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Klaus Schielke: The tragedy of the Dagmar rabbit. In: berliner-zeitung.de. Berliner Zeitung , September 8, 1994, accessed on September 6, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Vacation trip for Dagmar Hase. In: berliner-zeitung.de. Berliner Zeitung , September 9, 1994, accessed on September 6, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Van Almsick's World Cup gold 1994: A drama in four acts. In: morgenpost.de. Berliner Morgenpost, September 6, 2019, accessed on September 6, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Andreas Molitor: On Monday, the former swimming world champion Sylvia Gerasch will testify in the Berlin doping trial: A difficult witness. In: berliner-zeitung.de. Berliner Zeitung , April 25, 1998, accessed on September 6, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Protocol of a telephone conversation ( memento of the original dated 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 the GDR swimmer Karen König about the systematic administration of tablets to swimmers (including Dagmar Hase) 
7. ^ "The doping lie: Kristin Otto and others convicted" in the Berliner Zeitung
8. ^ "Collective compulsion to silence" ( Memento of March 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), In: Berliner Zeitung
9. ↑ ^{a b} Who is Who: Article Dagmar Hase
10. ↑ DTS magazine , 1998/12 p. 37
11. ↑ http://www.deutsche-fuchsien-ges.de/lexikon/lexikon_bild.php?id=136