Kristin Otto

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Kristin Otto (1982)

Personal information
Surname: Kristin Otto
Nation: Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR
Swimming style (s) : Freestyle, back, butterfly
Birthday: 7th February 1966 (age 54)
Place of birth: Leipzig , GDR
Size: 1.85 m
Weight: 70 kg
Medal table
Medals

Kristin Otto (born February 7, 1966 in Leipzig ) is a former German swimmer who competed for the GDR . In terms of the total number of titles she won at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships, Kristin Otto is the most successful German female swimming athlete to date with a total of 22 titles. During this time, she took illegal substances as part of the GDR's forced doping system . Otto is a sports journalist at ZDF .

Career

Kristin Otto (1984)
Kristin Otto (2018) as a sports presenter for ZDF

Kristin Otto started for the SC DHfK Leipzig . At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , she won gold six times. This makes her the most successful German swimmer in Olympic competitions. Among all German Olympic participants, she is fourth behind Birgit Fischer (eight gold medals), Isabell Werth (6 gold medals and four silver medals) and Reiner Klimke (six gold medals, two bronze medals). In 1988 and 1989 Kristin Otto was elected Sportswoman of the Year in the GDR and in 1988 European Sportswoman of the Year . In 1993 she was inducted into the international swimming pool 's hall of fame .

Her first international success was in 1981 at the European Cup in London, winning the 100 m back . In 1982 she became three-time world champion, in 1984 she set a world record in the 200 m freestyle (1: 58.15 minutes), and a start at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was prevented by the boycott of the Eastern Bloc countries (including the GDR). In 1986 she set a world record in the 100 m freestyle (54.73 seconds), which was only improved six years later, in 1992, by Jenny Thompson .

Kristin Otto ended her career as an active competitive athlete after the European Championships in Bonn in 1989 , where she won two gold and one bronze medals.

After graduating from high school in 1988, she completed an internship at Sender Leipzig the following year . In addition, she completed a distance learning course at the University of Leipzig and at the German University for Physical Culture in the subjects of journalism and sports journalism . In 1990 she was an editor in the sports department of Sachsenradio Leipzig . From 1991 to 2004 she was a co-commentator on ZDF in swimming competitions. She then sat in on the ZDF sports department in 1992 and has been an editor in the ZDF main sports department ever since. As a presenter and reporter, she works primarily in swimming , equestrian sports and speed skating . Since 1995 she has moderated the sport in the ZDF- heute broadcasts as well as in the ZDF-Mittagsmagazin . From 1997 to 2002 she presented the magazine Tips und Trends sportiv at 3sat . From 1998 to 2014 she moderated the ZDF sports report . In the years 2001 to 2006 she presented the choice athlete of the year . From 2014 to 2017 she was in charge of the ZDF editorial team “Sport Daily”. Since January 2018 she has been deputy head of the ZDF sports report editorial team .

doping

In 1999 and 2000, their former team doctor Horst Tausch and their trainer Stefan Hetzer were convicted of the years they admitted to doping their protégés. Kristin Otto protested against allegations of having knowingly been doped.

Specifically, like the former GDR top swimmers Daniela Hunger , Dagmar Hase and Heike Friedrich, she is accused of taking illegal performance-enhancing substances at the 1989 European Swimming Championships in Bonn . The testosterone content of women corresponded to that of a normal man and was thus far above the normal female value. She still denies these allegations to this day.

In 1991, anti-doping opponents Brigitte Berendonk and Werner Franke were able to secure dozens of dissertations and post-doctoral theses by former GDR doping researchers at the Bad Saarow Military Medical Academy . Based on the work, the state-organized forced doping of many well-known GDR competitive athletes, including Kristin Otto, was reconstructed. Claus Clausnitzer, who worked at the central doping control laboratory in Kreischa during the GDR era , publicly confirmed the authenticity of the lists published and the code number used for Kristin Otto in them in 1990.

According to a report by the television magazine Zapp in 2007, according to statements by former teammates, there was clear evidence that Kristin Otto had also been doped in her six Olympic gold medals in Seoul. The then ZDF editor-in-chief Nikolaus Brender said: “Ms. Otto made a declaration in 2000 that she had never doped. As long as there is no evidence against her on the table, we stand by her ”.

In 2013, the US magazine Swimming World dismissed her for the 1984, 1986 and 1988 awards as “ World Swimmer of the Year ” because of the systematic doping in GDR swimming. At the same time, the other GDR swimmers who had been awarded the title since 1973 were also deleted from the best lists.

Sporting successes

Olympic victories in 1988

World championships

Awards (selection)

Publications

  • Kristin Otto, Heinz Florian Oertel : Sydney 2000. Our Olympic book. Editor: Volker Kluge . Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-360-00930-4 .
  • Kristin Otto, Heinz Florian Oertel: Athens 2004. Our Olympic book. Editor: Volker Kluge. Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-360-01238-0 .
  • Kristin Otto, Heinz Florian Oertel: Turin 2006. Our Olympic book. Editor: Volker Kluge. Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-360-01274-7 .

literature

See also

Web links

Commons : Kristin Otto  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Groß won 21 titles.
  2. ↑ The doping noose is to Spiegel Online, September 5, 2000
  3. ^ "Collective compulsion to silence" ( Memento from January 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at the Berliner Zeitung
  4. ↑ picture, December 3, 1990
  5. ↑ Brigitte Berendonk: Doping documents - From research to fraud. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-540-53742-2 , p. 284
  6. ↑ ZDF presenter Kristin Otto comes under pressure Die Welt online, June 1, 2007, accessed on October 12, 2015.
  7. ↑ New doping suspicion “You don't swim six times Olympic gold on buttermilk”: Kristin Otto Berliner Kurier, June 2, 2007, accessed on October 12, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Swimmer of the Year": Kristin Otto loses her award Spiegel Online, December 3, 2013, accessed on October 12, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Otto, Kristin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig , GDR