Ilona Slupianek

Ilona Slupianek, 1980

Ilona Slupianek, 1981

Ilona Slupianek , née Schoknecht, married Briesenick , Longo (born September 24, 1956 in Demmin ), married in 2008 , is a former German shot putter who became 1980 Olympic champion for the GDR .

Life

The 1973 European Junior Champion finished fifth at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. After winning the European Cup in Helsinki in August 1977, she was tested positive for nandrolone during competition controls and banned from the European Athletic Association (EAA) for one year for doping . In 1991, anti-doping opponents Brigitte Berendonk and Werner Franke were able to secure several dissertations and post-doctoral theses by former GDR doping researchers at the Bad Saarow Military Medical Academy . Based on the work, the doping practice of many well-known GDR competitive athletes, including Ilona Slupianek, could be proven. According to the information, Ilona Slupianek received high doses of Oral-Turinabol from 1981 to 1984 . As a result of the Slupianek doping case, from 1977 the GDR athletes had to undergo an internal "exit control" before going to international competitions in order to camouflage the doping that is generally practiced.

Slupianek was able to return to competition as early as 1978 and win the European Championships in Prague . In 1980 she set two world records and triumphed at the Olympic Games in Moscow , and in 1982 she defended her title at the European Championships in Athens . The following year she won bronze at the World Championships in Helsinki .

In 1984, when the Olympic Games in Los Angeles were canceled for the GDR athletes because of the Olympic boycott, she won the alternate friendship competitions . She then married the European shot put champion Hartmut Briesenick and had a daughter. In 1987 she won the silver medal at the World Indoor Championships in Indianapolis , but missed qualifying for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul.

Ilona Slupianek is 1.80 m tall and weighed 95 kg during her active time. She started for SC Dynamo Berlin and OSC Berlin and trained with Willi Kühl . From 1976 to 1986 she was a member of the People's Chamber for the FDJ .

Personal best

• Shot put: 22.45 m, May 11, 1980, Potsdam (German record, former world record)
  • Hall: 21.59 m, January 24, 1979, East Berlin (German record)

Awards (selection)

• 1978: Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
• 1980: Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
• 1984: Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold

Web links

Commons : Ilona Slupianek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ilona Slupianek in the database of World Athletics (English)

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b} Werner Franke & Brigitte Berendonk: Hormonal doping and androgenization of athletes: a secret program of the German Democratic Republic government . In: Clinical Chemistry. No. 43, 1997, pp. 1262-1279
2. ^ Brigitte Berendonk: Doping documents. From research to fraud. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-540-53742-2 , p. 128 (Table 8)