Dagmar Kersten

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Dagmar Kersten at the GDR championship in 1988

Dagmar Kersten (born October 28, 1970 in Altdöbern ) is a former German gymnast . Your home club was the SC Dynamo Berlin . Kersten is a victim of state compulsory doping in GDR competitive sports .

Dagmar Kersten started gymnastics together with Ulrike Klotz at the school in Cottbus. When they were ten, both switched to the gymnastics boarding school in Berlin. In 1981 and 1983 Dagmar Kersten won the all- around competition at the Spartakiad . At the European Championships in 1985, Dagmar Kersten took fifth place in the all-around event and received bronze in the horse jump. She was even more successful at the 1985 World Championships in Montréal. She won bronze in the all-around competition, in the team competition with the team of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and in the horse jump; on the uneven bars she took second place behind her teammate Gabriele Fähnrich .

At the Olympic Games in 1988 Dagmar Kersten took third place with the GDR team and reached eighth place in the individual ranking of the all-around competition. She reached two device finals: in the horse jump she took sixth place, on the uneven bars she won silver behind the Romanian Daniela Silivaș .

At GDR championships in 1985, 1987 and 1988 she won the all-around title. In 1985 and 1988 she also won the horse jump, in 1988 she also won the uneven bars.

After the reunification , Dagmar Kersten moved to Stuttgart and worked for the Swabian Gymnastics Federation. Dagmar Kersten has been with the Lower Saxony Gymnastics Federation since 2006. V. active in the training "Trainer C apparatus gymnastics competitive sport" as "NTB training officer" and in many other training courses for gymnastics in the clubs in Lower Saxony.

In 1986 and 1988 Dagmar Kersten was awarded the Silver Patriotic Order of Merit in the GDR .

In 2011 she revealed doping practices in the GDR ; she is a recognized doping victim.

literature

  • Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ " Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2018 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. ". Neues Deutschland , October 15, 1986, p. 7. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nd-archiv.de
  2. ↑ " Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver ". New Germany , 12./13. November 1988, p. 4.
  3. ↑ Former GDR athlete Dagmar Kersten reveals doping practices. In: Welt online from April 5, 2011.
  4. ↑ Sandra Schmidt: "I didn't break because of it." In: Deutschlandfunk from March 13, 2011.

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personal data
SURNAME Kersten, Dagmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gymnast and victim of compulsory doping in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Altdöbern