Helga Arendt

Helga Arendt
nation	Germany
birthday	April 24, 1964
place of birth	Cologne , Germany
size	178 cm
Weight	64 kg
date of death	11th March 2013
Career
discipline	400 meter run
Best performance	50.36 s
society	Pulheimer SC ASV Cologne SC Eintracht Hamm LG Olympia Dortmund
Trainer	Heinz-Jochen Spilker
Medal table
Indoor world championships 1 × 0 × 0 × European Indoor Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Indoor world championships gold Budapest 1989 400 m  European Indoor Championships silver Budapest 1988 400 m

Helga Arendt (born April 24, 1964 in Cologne ; † March 11, 2013 ) was a German athlete who - starting for Germany - was successful as a 400-meter runner in the late 1980s and early 1990s .

Helga Arendt was 1.78 m tall and weighed 64 kg at competition times. It initially belonged to the Pulheimer SC , ASV Cologne , SC Eintracht Hamm and later to the LG Olympia Dortmund .

Services

At the indoor world championships in 1989 she was the winner in the 400-meter run.

On February 20, 1988 she was involved in an indoor world record in the 4 x 200 meter relay race in Dortmund , in which a relay of SC Eintracht Hamm (Helga Arendt, Silke-Beate Knoll , Mechthild Kluth , Gisela Kinzel ) a time of 1: 32.55 min. Helga Arendt won a total of twelve German championship titles.

Assignments at international highlights in detail:

• 1987

  European Indoor Championships in Liévin : 4th place in the 400 meter run (52.64 s)

  World Championships in Rome : 5th place in the 4 x 400 meter relay , eliminated in the 400 meter intermediate run

• 1988

  European Indoor Championships in Budapest : 2nd place in the 400-meter run (51.06 s)

  Olympic Games in Seoul : 7th place in the 400-meter run (51.17 s), 4th place in the 4 x 400-meter relay (3: 22.49 min.)

• 1989, World Indoor Championships in Budapest : 1st place in the 400-meter run (51.52 s)
• 1990, European Championships in Split : 4th place with the 4 x 400 meter relay (3: 25.12 min); eliminated in the 400-meter run.
• 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, participant in 4 x 400 meter relay race (not used)

Personal bests

• 100 m : 11.82 s, September 9, 1988, Hamm
• 200 m : 23.13 s, July 24, 1988, Frankfurt am Main
• 400 m: 50.36 s, September 25, 1988, Seoul

doping

During her career, Arendt was involved in a system of organized doping at EC Eintracht Hamm in the so-called "hammer model" under the then national coach Heinz-Jochen Spilker . Starting at the age of 22, she was given Stromba . After the death of Arendt called the doping victims aid organization the German sports organizations to work up the former chemical networks in East and West.

After the sports career

After her sporting career, Arendt, who had studied law in Münster , worked as a lawyer. She was admitted as such in 1997 and has held the title of specialist lawyer for traffic law since 2005 .

Web links

• Helga Arendt in the Databank World Athletics (English)
• Helga Arendt in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Athletics: Ex-indoor world champion Arendt died ; ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2013 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. SID notification at Zeit-Online from May 18, 2013. 
2. ↑ Helga Arendt: As a 22-year-old doped with Stromba. ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2015 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. SID report in the Handelsblatt from May 22, 2013.  
3. ↑ Pumped in a lot. Women's doping in German athletics using the example of the "hammer model" . Der Spiegel 49/1990 of December 3, 1990, pp. 219-230.
4. ↑ HELGA ARENDT (†) ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2014 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.