Kathleen North
Kathleen North 
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Kathleen Nord at the GDR Swimming Championships in Erfurt (1987) |
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| Surname: | Kathleen North | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 German Democratic Republic
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| Swimming style (s) : | Layers, butterfly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Society: | SC Magdeburg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birthday: | December 26, 1965 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Magdeburg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Size: | 1.76 m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 65 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kathleen Nord (born December 26, 1965 in Magdeburg ) is a former German swimmer who competed for the GDR .
Career
She started as a swimmer for SC Magdeburg . Her strengths were the distances of 200 m and 400 m positions as well as 200 m butterfly . At the beginning of her career she was successful in the intermediate distances and became European champion in 1983 and 1985 and world champion in this swimming style in 1986. After some sporting disappointments, she switched to the butterfly style and was able to become European champion again in 1987 and 1989. She achieved her greatest success at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with the Olympic victory in the 200 m butterfly. She ended her career in 1990.
After reunification , she emigrated to the USA and became a trainer at the Florida Gold Coast swimming club in Palm Beach . She also completed a few small meetings on the short course between 1995 and 1996 with moderate success.
In 1986 and 1988 Kathleen Nord was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold.
Doping in the GDR
She received doping substances from her trainer Wolfgang Sack as part of the state compulsory doping in the GDR .
literature
- Olaf W. Reimann: North, Kathleen . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Kathleen Nord in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
- Kathleen Nord in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Profile at United States Masters Swimming
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography at United States Masters Swimming
- ↑ "USMS Top Ten Swims by Kathleen N Schwartz" All top ten results from Kathleen Nord since 1993
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 15, 1986, p. 7
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, 12./13. November 1988, p. 4
- ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 59
1968: Ada Kok | 1972: Karen Moe | 1976: Andrea Pollack | 1980: Ines Geißler | 1984: Mary T. Meagher | 1988: Kathleen Nord | 1992: Summer Sanders | 1996: Susie O'Neill | 2000: Misty Hyman | 2004: Otylia Jędrzejczak | 2008: Liu Zige | 2012: Jiao Liuyang | 2016: Mireia Belmonte
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| SURNAME | North, Kathleen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg , German Democratic Republic |