Sigrun Wodars

Sigrun Wodars
Wodars became GDR junior champion in the 400 m in 1982
nation	DDR , Germany
birthday	7th November 1965 (age 54)
place of birth	New Kaliss
size	166 cm
Weight	54 kg
Career
discipline	800 meter run
Best performance	1: 55.26 min
society	SC Neubrandenburg
Trainer	Walter Gladrow
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 1 × 0 × 0 × European championships 1 × 1 × 0 × European Indoor Championships 1 × 1 × 0 × U19 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Seoul 1988 800 m  World championships gold Rome 1987 800 m  European championships silver Stuttgart 1986 800 m gold Split 1990 800 m  European Indoor Championships gold Madrid 1986 800 m silver Liévin 1987 800 m  Junior European Championships gold Schwechat 1983 4 × 400 m

Sigrun Wodars , née Sigrun Ludwigs , second marriage to Sigrun Grau , (born November 7, 1965 in Neu Kaliss ) is a former German athlete . Starting for the GDR , she became Olympic champion in the 800-meter run in 1988 .

Life

Wodars started for SC Neubrandenburg . There she trained together with Christine Wachtel , who was her rival in the finals several times at international highlights. Both athletes were coached by Walter Gladrow . Under her maiden name Sigrun Ludwigs , she became GDR junior champion in the 400-meter run in 1982. At the Junior European Championships in 1983, she won the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 meter relay .

At the European Indoor Championships in 1986 , she won the title in the 800-meter run and won silver at the European Championships in the same year. In 1987 she finished second behind Christine Wachtel at the European Indoor Championships , but was able to win the title at the World Championships in Rome with a time of 1: 55.26 minutes, which was still a German record in January 2013 .

Sigrun Wodars (right) 1989

After Wodars had won gold in the 800-meter run at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, for which she received the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold, she was World Cup -second and European Cup -second on this route in 1989 and also won with the 4-time- 400 meter relay of the GDR the European Cup.

Sigrun Wodars won her last title in Split at the 1990 European Championships over 800 meters. After the second marriage, she started under the name Sigrun Grau at the World Athletics Championships in 1991 and at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , but dropped out in the preliminary stages. Her first husband Reimar Wodars was also active as a track and field athlete.

In her playing days she was 1.66 m tall and 54 kg. At a witness hearing at ZERV in 1998, she stated that she had regularly taken the anabolic steroids Oral-Turinabol and STS from November 1983 to mid-1990 .

Wodars studied sports science at the DHfK Leipzig , Neubrandenburg branch, and became a certified sports teacher. At the same time, she completed training as a physiotherapist. After finishing her athletic career, she works as a teacher at a vocational school for physiotherapy in Neubrandenburg .

In the GDR she received the Gold Patriotic Order of Merit .

literature

• Olaf W. Reimann:  Wodars-Grau, Sigrun . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.

Web links

Commons : Sigrun Wodars  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sigrun Wodars in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Sigrun Wodars in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , 12./13. November 1988, p. 4
2. ↑ Jutta Heess, Markus Völker: The false records , the daily newspaper December 23, 2005
3. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: ZERV-Protokoll (PDF; 3.1 MB) , March 6, 1998. In: Das DDR-Erbe des SC Neubrandenburg , NDR 2012