Kerstin Behrendt

GDR championships 1990

Kerstin Behrendt (born September 2, 1967 in Leisnig ) is a former German athlete who - starting for the GDR - was one of the world's best 100-meter runners from the mid-1980s to 1990 .

Life

She achieved her greatest successes with the 4 x 100 meter relay of the GDR, with which she won the silver medal at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul and at the 1987 World Championships in Rome. For her athletic success at the Olympics in Seoul, she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.

Kerstin Behrendt started for the SC DHfK Leipzig and trained with Rudi Damm . When she competed, she was 1.77 m tall and weighed 64 kg. In the documents on state doping in the GDR that became public after the reunification , the name of Behrendt was also found among the doped athletes. She first became a medical-technical assistant, later a nurse.

successes

• 1985, Junior European Championships: 1st place in the 100 meter run, 200 meter run and with the 4 x 100 meter relay
• 1987, World Championships : 2nd place with the 4 x 100 meter relay (41.95 s, together with Silke Gladisch , Cornelia Oschkenat and Marlies Göhr )
• 1988, Olympic Games : 2nd place with the 4 x 100 meter relay (42.09 s, together with Silke Möller , Ingrid Lange and Marlies Göhr )
• 1990, European Championships : 3rd place in the 100 meter run (11.17 s); 1st place with the 4 x 100 meter relay (41.68 s, together with Silke Möller , Katrin Krabbe and Sabine Günther )

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , 12./13. November 1988, p. 4
2. ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 181

Web links

Commons : Kerstin Behrendt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kerstin Behrendt in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Kerstin Behrendt in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )