Petra Schneider
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Surname: | Petra Schneider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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German Democratic Republic (until 1990) Germany |
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Swimming style (s) : | Layers , freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Birthday: | January 11, 1963 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth: | Karl Marx City | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Size: | 1.72 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight: | 60 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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) | |||
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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
- ↑ world champion. In: German Swimming Association. Accessed April 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 3
- ↑ http://www.cycling4fans.de/index.php?id=5674
- ^ Child doping charges: The legacy of GDR sport . Berlin 1999, p. 123
- ↑ swimpool.de: DSV believes that records could be deleted . North Rhine-Westphalia Swimming Association December 23, 2005
- ↑ "Swimmer of the Year": Kristin Otto loses her award. In: Spiegel Online . December 3, 2013, accessed June 9, 2018 .
Web links
- 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 )
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SURNAME | Schneider, Petra |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German swimmer |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1963 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Karl Marx City |