Heike Apitzsch-Friedrich

This article describes the swimmer Heike Friedrich. For the wheelchair basketball player of the same name, see Heike Friedrich (wheelchair basketball player)

Heike Friedrich
Heike Friedrich at the GDR Swimming Championships in Potsdam (1988)
Personal information
Surname:	Heike Apitzsch-Friedrich
Nation:	German Democratic Republic (until 1990) Germany
Swimming style (s) :	Freestyle
Birthday:	April 18, 1970
Place of birth:	Glauchau
Size:	1.73 m
Medal table

Heike Apitzsch-Friedrich (* 18th April 1970 in Glauchau as Heike Friedrich ) is a former German swimmer who for the DDR started.

Career

She is one of the most successful swimmers of the 1980s and has won numerous titles and medals on the freestyle course. She achieved her first successes at the European Championships in 1985, when she won over 100 m and 200 m freestyle on the individual courses as well as with the relay over 4 × 100 m freestyle, 4 × 200 m freestyle and with the 4 × 100 m individual relay could. She was able to confirm this success with further titles at the next World and European Championships. At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 , she was Olympic champion in the 200 m freestyle . 1986 Friedrich received the Star of Friendship of Nations in gold; In 1988 she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold.

resignation

In 1990, after reunification , Heike Friedrich ended her successful career at the age of only 20.

doping

Heike Friedrich at the GDR Swimming Championships in Berlin (1986)

Heike Friedrich, like the other former GDR top swimmers, is accused of having achieved her success through doping , which was systematically administered to top athletes by the state . This is confirmed by other testimonies, such as the former GDR swimmer Karen König , which was made in the course of the doping trials from 1998 to 2000 against the former GDR swimming coaches Michael Regner , Stefan Hetzer , Dieter Lindemann and Volker Frischke .

Specifically, it became known that in addition to Kristin Otto , Dagmar Hase and Daniela Hunger , Heike Friedrich 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.

literature

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

Web links

Commons : Heike Friedrich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Heike Apitzsch-Friedrich in the Swimrankings.net database (English)
• Heike Apitzsch-Friedrich in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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 Karen König 
2. ^ "Collective compulsion to silence" ( Memento from January 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) in the Berliner Zeitung
3. ↑ "The doping lie: Kristin Otto and others convicted" in the Berliner Zeitung