Rica Reinisch

Rica Reinisch
Rica Reinisch at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow
Personal information
Surname:	Rica Reinisch
Nation:	German Democratic Republic
Swimming style (s) :	move
Birthday:	April 6, 1965
Place of birth:	Seifhennersdorf
Size:	1.78 m
Medal table

Rica Reinisch , also Rica Neumann and Rica Neumann-Reinisch (born April 6, 1965 in Seifhennersdorf , Dresden district , GDR ) is a former German swimmer who competed for the SC Einheit Dresden and the GDR. Reinisch is a victim of government enforced doping in competitive GDR sports .

Career

Rica Reinisch took part in a swimming competition for the first time at the age of nine and then became a student at the Dresden children's and youth sports school. At the age of twelve, she was already swimming the 100 m distance in the backstroke 01: 14.3 min. At 14, she finished 20th in the world rankings at this distance with 01: 04.84 min.

At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , she won three gold medals. She won in world record times over 100 meters and 200 meters back as well as with the 4 × 100 m individual relay . For these successes she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.

After a breakdown in 1982 at a training camp in Kharkov, Ukraine as a result of ovarian inflammation , she had to give up top-class sport. In 1989 she was inducted into the hall of fame of international swimming .

Forced doping in the GDR

After her time as a top swimmer, Reinisch had massive health problems that were a result of the systematically administered anabolic steroids . Her trainer Uwe Neumann had given her Oral-Turinabol at the age of 14 without any information . She suffered u. a. chronic ovarian inflammation , cardiac arrhythmias and three inflammations of the heart muscle . She also suffered two miscarriages .

In May 2000, as a witness before the Berlin Regional Court in the trial against Manfred Ewald , the former chairman of the German Gymnastics and Sports Association of the GDR and the National Olympic Committee of the GDR , as well as against Manfred Höppner , the deputy head of the Sports Medical Service of the GDR , out.

Private

Reinisch grew up on Usedom and in Großschönau. In 1988 she left the GDR. She lives in Eschweiler and has two children. She worked temporarily as head of marketing at Alemannia Aachen . Today Reinisch is a freelance mental and motivational coach for managers.

literature

• Olaf W. Reimann:  Reinisch, Rica . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Rica Reinisch in the International Swimming Hall of Fame (English)
• Rica Reinisch in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 3
2. ^ "The prodigy whose body lasted two years" in The Guardian (English). Retrieved January 5, 2009
3. ↑ http://www.gazzetta.cycling4fans.de/index.php?id=5674#36125
4. ↑ ^{a b} Christof Ernst: Rica Reinisch's second life. In: Express . July 17, 2008, accessed May 20, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Jens Weinreich: Take it, this is good for you. In: Berliner Zeitung . May 24, 2000, accessed June 8, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Rica Reinisch on the Alemannia Aachen website ( memento of March 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 9, 2013