Silke-Beate Knoll

Silke-Beate Knoll

nation

Germany

birthday

21st February 1967 (age 53)

place of birth

Rottweil , Germany

size

163 cm

Weight

52 kg

Career

Best performance

100 m: 11.17 s
200 m: 22.29 s
400 m: 50.85 s

society

MTV Celle
SC Eintracht Hamm
LG Olympia Dortmund

Trainer

Heinz-Jochen Spilker (SCE Hamm)

status

resigned

Medal table

World championships	0 ×	0 ×	1 ×
European championships	1 ×	1 ×	0 ×
European Indoor Championships	0 ×	1 ×	1 ×
U19 European Championships	0 ×	0 ×	1 ×

World championships
bronze	Gothenburg 1995	4 × 100 m
European championships
silver	Split 1990	4 × 100 m
gold	Helsinki 1994	4 × 100 m
European Indoor Championships
bronze	Budapest 1988	200 m
silver	Paris 1994	200 m
Junior European Championships
bronze	Cottbus 1985	4 × 400 m

Silke-Beate Knoll (born February 21, 1967 in Rottweil , Baden-Württemberg ) is a former German athlete and Olympian who was successful as a sprinter in the 1980s and 1990s .

Career

Her first major success was the 1985 German youth title in the 200-meter run . In 1988 she set an indoor world record with the 4 x 200 meter relay from Eintracht Hamm. It currently still holds the unofficial German record over 300 meters in 35.81 s.

Her greatest successes are the bronze medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay at the 1995 World Athletics Championships in Gothenburg (together with Melanie Paschke , Silke Lichtenhagen and Gabriele Becker ) and the gold medal at the 1994 European Championships in Helsinki with the 4- by 100 meters relay (together with Melanie Paschke, Bettina Zipp and Silke Lichtenhagen). She finished fourth in the 200-meter run .

It started until 1996 at many international highlights in the team of the Federal Republic. At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988, she competed in the 200-meter run, but was eliminated in the intermediate run. At the European Championships in 1990 , she won the silver medal with the 4 x 100 meter relay. She finished fifth in the 200-meter run.

At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, she was fourth with the 4-by-100-meter relay; in the 200-meter run she made it to the semi-finals. Her third participation in the Olympics in 1996 was not a good star, the 4 x 100 meter relay did not bring the baton to the finish.

Knoll may not have been in the limelight like other athletes, but very few have 22 German championship titles. She started for MTV Celle , 1987 to 1989 for SC Eintracht Hamm , then for LG Olympia Dortmund . In her active days she was 1.63 m tall and 52 kg light. At the end of 1997, she ended her sports career.

In 2004 Silke Knoll returned briefly to the athletics stage. She ran for LAC Dortmund in the 4 x 100 meter relay at the German Championships in Braunschweig and came in seventh. She played her last competition on February 19, 2005 at the German Indoor Championships in Sindelfingen, also in the LAC Dortmund relay.

doping

During her career - as Der Spiegel revealed in 1990 - Knoll was involved in a system of organized doping at SC Eintracht Hamm in the so-called "hammer model" under the then national coach Heinz-Jochen Spilker . With her own consent, she was given the anabolic steroid Anavar .

Personal bests

100 m : 11.17 s, May 28, 1992, Jena
200 m: 22.29 s, July 9, 1992, Ingolstadt
- Halle: 22.91 s, February 26, 1994, Dortmund
300 m 35.85 s (German best performance)
400 m : 50.85 s, July 1, 1995, Bremen

literature

Rolf Wolter: Silke-Knoll-Gehrmann - athlete with nimble legs , in: Women from the Celler Land. A journey through the centuries , ed. from LEB Bildungswerk im Landkreis Celle eV, represented by Ingrid Lehmann, Celle: Ströher Druckerei & Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-921744-37-7 , pp. 149–155
Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005. 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 (published by Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft )

Web links

Silke-Beate Knoll in the database of World Athletics (English)
Silke-Beate Knoll in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )