Mechthild Kluth
Mechthild Kluth (born April 14, 1965 in Paderborn ) is a former German athlete who was successful as a sprinter in the 1980s .
On February 20, 1988, she was involved in an indoor world record in the 4 x 200 meter run in Dortmund , in which a season of SC Eintracht Hamm ( Helga Arendt , Silke-Beate Knoll , Mechthild Kluth, Gisela Kinzel ) one Time of 1: 32.55 min.
Kluth belonged to the sports club Eintracht Hamm. With a height of 1.76 m, she weighed 66 kg at competition times.
During her career - as Der Spiegel revealed in 1990 - Kluth was involved in a system of organized doping at EC Eintracht Hamm in the so-called "hammer model" under the then national coach Heinz-Jochen Spilker . With her own consent, she was given the anabolic steroid Anavar .
Personal bests
- 100 m : 11.66 s, July 22, 1988, Frankfurt am Main
- 200 m : 24.26 s, August 4, 1985, Stuttgart
literature
- Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005. 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 (published by Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Spiegel v. December 3, 1990: Pumped in a lot. Women's doping in German athletics using the example of the "hammer model".
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kluth, Mechthild |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sprinter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paderborn |