Petra Schneider

Petra Schneider
Personal information
Surname:	Petra Schneider
Nation:	German Democratic Republic (until 1990) Germany
Swimming style (s) :	Layers , freestyle
Birthday:	January 11, 1963
Place of birth:	Karl Marx City
Size:	1.72 m
Weight:	60 kg
Medal table

Petra Schneider (born January 11, 1963 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a former German swimmer who competed for the GDR .

Life

At 15, she won the World Championships in 1978 in West Berlin behind Ulrike Tauber and Tracy Caulkins the bronze medal in the 400m layers . The following year she defeated the best European Ulrike Tauber for the first time in the 400 m individual medley. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , she became Olympic champion on her parade route . She was able to confirm this success in the following two years with victories at the European Championships in 1981 and the World Championships in Guayaquil in 1982 , where she swam a world record time of 400 meters (4: 36.10 min). In 1984 she retired from active sports. In 1989 she was inducted into the hall of fame of international swimming . In 1980 she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver in the GDR .

In 1988 Schneider married the weightlifter Ingobert Kind .

GDR doping

After the reunification and peaceful revolution in the GDR , she confessed, since she was 14 years old, that she had regularly received the doping preparation Oral-Turinabol from her trainer Eberhard Mothes . In 2005 she demanded in the ARD broadcast Kontraste the cancellation of her previous German record over 400 m individual medley. Schneider was stripped of her award as “ World Swimmer of the Year ” by the US magazine “Swimming World”.

Records

German Records (2)
400 m layers	04: 36.10 min	August 1, 1982	Guayaquil
1500 m freestyle (short course)	15: 43.31 min	January 10, 1982	Gainesville
(As of August 2, 2008)

literature

• Holger Schück : "We want to live!" , In: Child doping charges: The legacy of GDR sport . Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-932274-16-4 , pp. 119-132.
• Olaf W. Reimann:  Schneider, Petra . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ world champion. In: German Swimming Association. Accessed April 22, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 3
3. ↑ http://www.cycling4fans.de/index.php?id=5674
4. ^ Child doping charges: The legacy of GDR sport . Berlin 1999, p. 123
5. ↑ swimpool.de: DSV believes that records could be deleted . North Rhine-Westphalia Swimming Association December 23, 2005
6. ↑ "Swimmer of the Year": Kristin Otto loses her award. In: Spiegel Online . December 3, 2013, accessed June 9, 2018 . 

Web links

Commons : Petra Schneider  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Petra Schneider in the International Swimming Hall of Fame (English)
• Petra Schneider in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
• Petra Schneider in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )