SC Motor Jena

Logo of SC Motor Jena 1963–1990

Logo 1954-1963

The SC Motor Jena was on 19 November 1954 under the DTSB among various sports clubs to promote competitive sports in the GDR was founded. The Jenaer Sportclub was a competitive sports center in several sports:

Athletics : Among others, the following world-class athletes started for Motor Jena: Rolf Beilschmidt , Heike Drechsler , Petra Felke , Marlies Göhr , Gisela Köhler , Uwe Langhammer , Waltraud Pöhland , Wolfgang Nordwig , Renate Stecher and Bärbel Wöckel .

One focus of the club's work was the women's 4 x 100 meter relay . This season was a total of 17 GDR champions between 1951 and 1988. In 1984 the first season with Ingrid Auerswald , Göhr, Wöckel and Ines Schmidt won the GDR championships before the second season with Sabine Rieger . The winning time of the first season of 42.20 s is the German record for club seasons. It has been legally confirmed that all four sprinters were doped in this record as part of the state-decreed compulsory doping in GDR competitive sport . (The medication with Oral-Turinabol for 1984 was: Schmidt: 1291 milligrams. Wöckel: 1670 milligrams. Long: 1375 milligrams. Göhr: 1405 milligrams.) Geipel was therefore deleted from the record list in 2006.

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Wrestling : Several successful athletes also competed for SC Motor Jena in wrestling: Uwe Neupert , Andreas Schröder , Hartmut Reich , Erhard Pocher , Mario Willomeit and Gerald Pfister . Uwe Neupert was European champion several times and world champion in 1978 .

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Table tennis : In 1949 the men's team with the line-up Müller, Freitag, Strauch, Schindler, Leich, Ortleb and Voigt became "Eastern Zone Masters" by winning the final over Leipzig. In the 1950s, the GDR title was won seven times.