Renate Vogel
Renate Vogel 
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Renate Vogel at the GDR Swimming Championships (1971) |
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| Surname: | Renate Vogel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 German Democratic Republic
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| Swimming style (s) : | chest | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birthday: | June 30, 1955 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Karl Marx City | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Size: | 1.64 m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Renate Bauer , b. Vogel (born June 30, 1955 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a former swimmer who competed for the GDR . In 1979 she fled the GDR and provided information in the Federal Republic of Germany about the GDR compulsory doping system .
Career
The breaststroke swimmer achieved her first major success at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich when she won the silver medal with the GDR relay over 4 × 100 meters. A year later she became world champion both in the 100 meters and in the 200 meters chest at the first swimming world championships in Belgrade . At the 1974 European Swimming Championships in Vienna , she won the silver medal behind Christel Justen .
In her career she was also able to improve the world record over 100 meters chest in 1974 and between 1972 and 1974 with the GDR relay the world record over 4 × 100 meters medley several times.
Escape and persecution
After an intensification of training and medical performance manipulation in women’s swimming after the Olympic Games in 1972, rumors of doping also made the rounds among athletes. After Renate Vogel, who was the favorite at the 1974 European Championship, only won silver behind the West German Christel Justen, she was treated as a failure by the sports officials. After completing their training, the long-term decision to flee was put into practice. She received money from friends for a plane ticket and a German passport and, under a false identity, boarded a plane to Munich in September 1979 after a vacation in Budapest . After her arrival she reported extensively in various international media about the East German talent promotion and the systematic and hidden doping practices used in the GDR . A subsequent threat from revenge actions by the SED regime became apparent when it had to be guarded by bodyguards during an ORF interview in Vienna . She said that drugs were injected or mixed into food as early as 14 years old.
After fleeing to the Federal Republic of Germany, she first worked as a swimming coach at SV Bietigheim and was assistant coach for the German national team from 1982 to 1988 . Since 1983 she has also been working as a self-employed retail clerk .
Renate Vogel is the cousin of the swimmer Helga Lindner , who became European champion over 200 m butterfly in 1970.
Web links
- Renate Vogel in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
- Verena Kemna: Athletes on the run (report on an exhibition in Berlin), with quotations from Renate Vogel
Individual evidence
- ↑ Column 3, middle: "Gold Bird in the West" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna September 19, 1979, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ^ Portrait of Renate Bauer on ZOV Sport Verräter - Top athletes on the run , Center for German Sports History, accessed October 4, 2012
- ↑ DOPING: Burke and adjourned . In: Der Spiegel . No. 29 , 1989 ( online ).
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| SURNAME | Vogel, Renate |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heinrich, Renate; Bauer, Renate |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karl Marx City |