Gisela Kinzel

Gisela Kinzel

Full name

Gisela Maria Kinzel

nation

Germany

birthday

17th May 1961 (age 59)

place of birth

Kirchhellen , Germany

size

172 cm

Weight

60 kg

Career

discipline

400 meter run

Best performance

50.83 s

society

VfL Gladbeck
SC Eintracht Hamm

Trainer

Heinz-Jochen Spilker

status

resigned

Medal table

European championships	0 ×	1 ×	0 ×
European Indoor Championships	0 ×	1 ×	0 ×

European championships
silver	Stuttgart 1986	4 × 400 m
European Indoor Championships
silver	Liévin 1987	400 m

Gisela Maria Kinzel , b. Gottwald (born May 17, 1961 in Kirchhellen ) is a former German athlete and Olympic participant who - starting for the Federal Republic - won the silver medal at the European Championships in 1986 with the 4 x 400 meter relay of the Federal Republic (3:22 , 80 min: Gisela Kinzel, Ute Thimm , Heidi-Elke Gaugel , Gaby Bußmann ). In the 400-meter individual race of these European championships, she was eliminated in the intermediate run after disqualification .

She also started, but without medal successes, at the 1983 World Championships (4 × 400 m: 6th place), the 1987 World Championships (4 × 400 m: 5th place; 400 m: eliminated in the intermediate heat ) and at the 1984 Olympic Games (in the preliminary the 4-by-400-meter relay, which took 4th place in the final).

Gisela Kinzel initially belonged to the sports club VfL Gladbeck , later she moved to SC Eintracht Hamm . During her competition time she was 1.72 m tall and weighed 60 kg.

During her career, as Der Spiegel revealed in 1990 , Kinzel was involved in a system of organized doping at SC Eintracht Hamm in the so-called "hammer model" under the then national coach Heinz-Jochen Spilker . From 1984 she was given Stromba with her own consent .

Web links

Gisela Kinzel in the database of World Athletics (English)
Gisela Kinzel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Pumped in a lot. Women's doping in German athletics using the example of the "hammer model" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1990, pp. 219-228 ( Online - Dec. 3, 1990 ).

personal data
SURNAME	Kinzel, Gisela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gottwald, Gisela (maiden name); Kinzel, Gisela Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German athlete and Olympic participant
DATE OF BIRTH	May 17, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bottrop-Kirchhellen

[1] Pumped in a lot. Women's doping in German athletics using the example of the "hammer model" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1990, pp. 219-228 ( Online - Dec. 3, 1990 ).