Jörg Sievers (swimmer)

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Jörg Sievers (born July 28, 1956 , † January 17, 1973 in Magdeburg ) was a German swimmer of the SC Magdeburg and a doping victim .

Live and act

Jörg Sievers started swimming at the age of 5 . At the age of 10 he was delegated to the Children's and Youth Sports School (KJS) Magdeburg, which means that he also switched to SC Magdeburg. He was trained for competitive sports. He was also involved in the GDR doping system . At the age of 16, his performance stagnated. Nevertheless, he was part of the extended squad of the GDR national team.

death

In medical studies an enlargement of was heart , a cardiomegaly found. The doctor informed the mother that because of this finding, Jörg Sievers had to stop high-performance sport. The swimming coach Jörg Sievers informed the swimmer after Christmas 1972 about the end of his sporting career. However, this was justified to him with the failure to achieve standards . With the end of competitive sports, the exclusion from the KJS was connected. A training session was planned.

On January 17, 1973, on the edge of a scheduled training session, the swimming master first noticed a cyanosis . Jörg Sievers complained of nausea. Two hours later, he was found dead in the swimming pool that had previously been used for training. The parents were told that the cause of death was heart and lung failure as a result of flu . Years later they found out about doping with anabolic steroids .

Work-up

After the doping practices in the GDR became known, the German- Canadian journalist Karin Helmstaedt, who is related to the Sievers family, took up the death and reported on him in 1993 in the specialist magazine Swimnews . In 1997 he was in the ARD documentation kids Doping discussed. In connection with this, the attending physician initially denied having knowledge of Jörg Sievers and then said that he did not know anything about possible damage caused by anabolic steroids.

The public prosecutor and the police investigated . In the autopsy report , muscular wall thickening ( hypertrophy ) in the area of ​​the left and right ventricle and an enlargement were described. The spleen showed an acute inflammation and the liver an inflammatory- toxic damage. The investigation was closed.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Seppelt , Holger Schück (Ed.): Indictment: Child doping . The legacy of GDR sport. Karin Helmstaedt, Hans-Joachim Seppelt: Death of a swimmer . The search for the truth: the Jörg Sievers case. Pages 157 to 176. Tenea, 1999. ISBN 978-3-932-27416-9 .
  2. ↑ DOPING IN THE GDR. In: FINA - SWIMMING. Retrieved April 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Sievers, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1956
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1973
Place of death Magdeburg