Andreas Krieger

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Heidi Krieger during the European Athletics Championships in Stuttgart, 1986

Andreas Krieger (* 20th July 1965 in Berlin as Heidi Krieger ) is a former German shot putter . Krieger is a victim of the state-prescribed compulsory doping in GDR competitive sports .

Athletic career

Krieger, who started athletics at the age of 13 , was treated with anabolic steroids and male hormones without his knowledge as part of the GDR state doping at the latest by the age of 16 . At the age of 16, he was accepted into the state anabolic steroids program of the GDR Sports Medical Service as "Sportswoman 54" . The dissertations and postdoctoral theses of GDR doping investigators in 1991 by the Doping opponents Brigitte Berendonk and Werner Franke in the Military Medical Academy Bad Saarow could be ensured held include accurate values to annual doses and average daily amounts of administered anabolic steroids. According to this information, Krieger was given high doses of Oral-Turinabol from 1982 to 1984 . Krieger is a state-recognized doping victim and one of the few former top athletes of the GDR who speak publicly about doping practice in the GDR.

With a height of 1.87 m, Krieger had a competition weight of 100 kg.

Gender reassignment

Andreas Krieger had difficulties finding himself in a female gender role. His gender identity, he realized over the years, was male. Krieger attributes this, at least in part, to doping with testosterone. He changed gender role, underwent in 1997 a gender reassignment surgery and took the name of Andrew.

Torch relay for human rights

As part of the torch relay for human rights , Andreas Krieger and his wife Ute Krieger-Krause (married in 2002) campaigned against the holding of the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 in the event that China did not severely restrict its human rights violations by then.

Doping victim

After his career, Andreas Krieger and other doping victims took part as a joint plaintiff in the trial against the President of the German Gymnastics and Sports Federation of the GDR , Manfred Ewald , and the deputy head of the Sports Medical Service of the GDR, Manfred Höppner , and testified as a witness. Höppner and Ewald were sentenced to probation for aiding and abetting bodily harm. Andreas Krieger lives as a self-employed entrepreneur in Magdeburg . Krieger is married to the former GDR swimmer Ute Krieger-Krause , who was also forced to doping by her coaches. Andreas Krieger has suffered from serious health problems since retiring from the sport. He can only endure minimal physical exertion and is unable to sleep on his side due to the years of excessive physical stress while taking steroids.

In 2008 Ukrainian cineastes shot the documentary Doping, the Factory of Champions ( Допинг. Фабрика чемпионов ), the protagonists of which are Andreas Krieger, his wife Ute Krause-Krieger and their daughter. In 2017, Krieger's half-sister Susann Krieger (from the father's second marriage) won the German Radio Prize in the category "Best Reportage" for her contribution, "Doped Gold - How Heidi Andreas became", about the life story of her brother and her meeting with him again.

The gold medal in the shot put, won at the European Athletics Championships in 1986 with a width of 21.10 m, was donated by Krieger in 1999 to the Association for Doping Victims Aid . It has been incorporated into a sculpture since 2000 and awarded as the Heidi Warrior Medal to people who have made a special contribution to the fight against doping .

Krieger fights for his records to be deleted from the official leaderboards in order to make “fatally doping-contaminated distances and times [not] appear as a desirable achievement”. He is particularly critical of his records from the junior division.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Doping: Doping victim Heidi Krieger , planet-wissen.de , June 6, 2016
  2. ↑ Brigitte Berendonk: Doping documents - From research to fraud. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-540-53742-2 , p. 128, table 8
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Maik Großekathöfer: Doping victim warrior: Abused by the state. In: Spiegel Online . August 18, 2009. Retrieved April 12, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Feature Doped Gold - How Heidi Andreas became , mdr.de, August 6, 2016
  5. ^ Eva A. Richter: Doping in the GDR: Only the medals counted . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . tape 97 , no. 30 . Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag , July 28, 2000, p. A-2014 / B-1702 / C-1598 .
  6. ↑ Interview with Ute Krieger Krause: “I don't want to forgive anymore” ksta.de , April 7, 2009
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 17, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  8. ↑ Thomas Purschke: Doping Victims Against Athletics Association: Cheat records remain. In: taz.de . September 13, 2012, accessed February 2, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 15, 1986, p. 7
personal data
SURNAME Krieger, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krieger, Heidi (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German shot putter
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin