Lutz Wanja
Lutz Wanja 
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Lutz Wanja (back) at the GDR Swimming Championships in Leipzig (1977) |
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| Surname: | Lutz Wanja | ||||||||||||||||||
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 German Democratic Republic
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| Swimming style (s) : | move | ||||||||||||||||||
| Birthday: | June 6, 1956 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Brandenburg ad Havel | ||||||||||||||||||
| Size: | 1.83 m | ||||||||||||||||||
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Lutz Wanja (born June 6, 1956 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) is a former swimmer of the GDR .
Career
Swimming career
In 1971, when he was still starting for ASK Vorwärts Rostock , he was GDR champion over 100 meters back . In the following year he competed for ASK Vorwärts Potsdam and took second place. After a third place in 1973, the runner-up title followed again in 1974. Between 1976 and 1978, the swimmer was GDR champion on this route three times in a row. On the 200-meter back distance, he took second place four times at the GDR championships from 1972 to 1975, three times behind his main competitor Roland Matthes . In 1976 he managed to beat Roland Matthes and Michael Tauber on this track and to take the title. In 1976 and 1977 Wanja was also GDR champion over the 200-meter layered course.
His international successes included a silver medal over 100 meters back and a bronze medal with the GDR's 4 × 100 meter freestyle relay at the 1974 European Championships in Vienna .
In 1977, at the European Championships in Jönköping , he was able to get another silver medal with the 4 × 100 meter layer relay.
In Belgrade at the swimming world championships in 1973 , he was third behind Roland Matthes and the American Mike Stamm over 100 meters back.
He could not win a medal at the Olympic Games , neither at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , where he took sixth place in the 100 meter back course, nor at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , where Wanja was fifth over 100 meters back.
Further career
After finishing his active career, he worked as a trainer at ASK Vorwärts Potsdam, where he looked after Uwe Daßler , Jens-Peter Berndt and Jörg Hoffmann , among others . He then worked as a swimming coach at SC Magdeburg . Since 2001 he has been working for the Brandenburg State Swimming Association as a full-time state base trainer Southwest and at the same time works as a junior trainer for the Brandenburg Water Friends. In 1988 he was awarded the Order Banner of Work Level I in the GDR for his success as a trainer .
Private
Wanja is married to the former swimmer Barbara Krause .
GDR doping
After a confession from Jörg Hoffmann, where he admits to having taken illegal performance-enhancing substances for the first time in 1988 , he confirms that his trainer at the time, Lutz Wanja, administered the anabolic steroid Oral-Turinabol to him.
Web links
- Lutz Wanja in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Lutz Wanja in the Swimrankings.net database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , 12./13. November 1988, p. 4
- ↑ Matthias Krause: Early end of a working day. In: Berliner Zeitung . January 13, 1998, accessed June 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Matthias Krause: The end of excuses is approaching. In: Berliner Zeitung. June 16, 2000, accessed June 8, 2015 .
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| SURNAME | Vanya, Lutz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brandenburg on the Havel |