Daniela hunger

Daniela hunger
Daniela Hunger at the GDR Championships (1990)
Personal information
Surname:	Daniela hunger
Nation:	German Democratic Republic (until 1990) Germany
Swimming style (s) :	Freestyle
Birthday:	March 20, 1972
Place of birth:	Berlin
Size:	1.75 m
Medal table

Daniela Hunger (born March 20, 1972 in Berlin ) is a former German swimmer .

Career

In 1988, starting for the GDR , she became Olympic champion in the 200 meter medley at the Summer Olympics in Seoul and with the 4 × 100 meter freestyle relay . In the individual competition she was third in the 400 m individual medley.

At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , Daniela Hunger won silver with the 4 × 100 m medley relay and bronze medals in the 200 m medley as well as with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay.

In 1989, 1991 and 1993 she was European champion over 200 m medley. In 1996, she resigned after failing to qualify for the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta back.

For her sporting successes in 1988 in Seoul, Daniela Hunger was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold. She also received the Silver Bay Leaf on June 23, 1993.

GDR doping

Daniela Hunger as well as the former GDR top swimmers Kristin Otto , Dagmar Hase and Heike Friedrich are accused of taking 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.

In 1998 she went to the public with a few other former GDR top swimmers such as Rica Reinisch , Carola Nitschke or Andrea Pollack against their former trainers and sports medicine specialists , claiming that systematic doping was being practiced.

literature

• Short biography for:  Hunger, Daniela . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Daniela Hunger in the Swimrankings.net database (English)
• Daniela Hunger in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , 12./13. November 1988, p. 4
2. ^ Sports report Lower Saxony e. V., VIBSS: The Federal President and his tasks in the field of sport: ... on June 23, 1993, Federal President von Weizsäcker awarded ... disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the 1992 Olympic and Paralympic Games with the Silver bay leaf made of ...
3. ^ "Collective compulsion to silence" ( Memento from January 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at the Berliner Zeitung
4. ↑ "Drugs update" at bnet.com (English)