Katharina Bullin
| Katharina Bullin | |
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| Date of birth | March 2, 1959 |
| place of birth | Stalinstadt , GDR |
| size | 1.77 m |
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| 1972-1980 | SC Dynamo Berlin |
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| GDR national team | |
| successes | |
| 1975, 1978, 1979 1978 1977 1979 1980 |
GDR champion, winner of the European Cup Winners' Cup Silver European Championship Finland Silver European Championship France Silver Olympic Games Moscow |
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As of January 11, 2013 |
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Katharina Bullin (born March 2, 1959 in Stalinstadt ) is a former volleyball player in the GDR . She is a victim of state-prescribed doping in GDR competitive sports .
Bullin is a former GDR national player . She won the silver medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow and was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze with her teammates . She played for SC Dynamo Berlin and was three times GDR champion between 1975 and 1979 . She also won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1978 .
Doping victim
The former model and elite athlete of the GDR is one of the victims of the doping program in GDR competitive sport . Without their knowledge, the young people at the time were given “performance-enhancing agents” in various test series. This happened in the form of a special diet as well as tablets and syringes without any further explanation from the sports doctors who supervised them .
At that time, necessary operations on the right shoulder and left foot were not performed in order not to endanger the participation of the top athlete in the Olympic Games in Moscow and to win a medal at the volleyball tournament. At the age of 13 she was accepted into the GDR's sports system. Two years later she was already a member of the juniors and the women's team in the GDR . After the 1980 Olympics, she was dropped by the GDR sports officials in 1981 because she was no longer fit enough for competitive sports. Without training or sports medicine support, she was dismissed from the squad and then fell into an emotional crisis. After alcoholism and pill addiction, she recovered on her own and built up her life.
Today she suffers from the consequences of the doping treatments at that time , e.g. B. Torn cruciate ligament and meniscus damage in the knees from excessive strength training. Despite the twelve operations that have now been carried out, she has chronic pain, her body is masculinized and she has to keep training permanently in order to maintain a minimum level of mobility. Bullin searches the GDR files, which have now been opened, for evidence of what happened at that time. She fights for compensation and a pension for the disability inflicted on her.
Web links
- Katharina Bullin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Katharina Bullin - And I thought I was the greatest - Documentation / biography by Marcus Welsch
- Two women, 100 substances, 1000 effects - Chronicle of an unannounced death
- Arte documentary about a doping victim in the GDR Deep voices, thick muscles, destroyed lives , Berliner Zeitung, July 6, 2006
- Deutschlandradio Kultur - Nachspiel 4.11.07, A woman like a man: The ruined life of the GDR athlete Katharina Bullin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 4
- ↑ Health damage according to plan , Der Tagesspiegel , December 3, 2006
- ↑ "I was the greatest" , taz.de, December 22, 2005
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bullin, Katharina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German volleyball player from the GDR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stalin city |