Ralf-Peter Hemmann

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Ralf-Peter Hemmann medal table
Ralf-Peter Hemmann, 1978
Ralf-Peter Hemmann, 1978

Apparatus gymnast

Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic
Olympic Summer Games
silver 1980 Team all-around
World championships
gold 1981 Horse jump
bronze 1978 Team all-around

Ralf-Peter Hemmann (born  December 8, 1958 in Dresden ) is a former German gymnast . His home club was the SC DHfK Leipzig .

He won a silver medal in the team all-round competition with the team of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow . In the individual competition in horse jumping , he was fourth in these games. A year later he won the gymnastics world championships on the same device , which also took place in Moscow in 1981. With the GDR team he won the bronze medal in the all- around at the 1978 World Championships in Strasbourg .

At GDR championships, he won a total of five national individual titles. It was 1978, 1979 and 1980, East German champion on parallel bars in 1978 on stretching and 1981 rings gymnastics . In 1980 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

According to statements by Soviet officials, Hemmann gave a positive doping test at the 1981 World Cup in Moscow . The case was not published and Hemmann was not informed either. It was not until six months later, despite the reigning world champion, that GDR sport officials told him that his career was over.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 4
  2. ^ Doping, harassment and cover-up deutschlandfunk.de December 4, 2011
  3. ↑ "In no time - he was outside" Süddeutsche Zeitung January 12, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Hemmann, Ralf-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German apparatus gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden