Ulf Timmermann

Ulf Timmermann
Ulf Timmermann at the GDR athletes' sports festival
Full name	Ulf Béla Timmermann
nation	DDR , Germany
birthday	November 1, 1962
place of birth	East Berlin ,  GDR
size	194 cm
Weight	118 kg
job	Business consultant
Career
discipline	Shot put
Best performance	23.06 m
society	Berlin TSC , OSC Berlin
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 0 × 1 × 0 × European championships 1 × 1 × 0 × Indoor world championships 2 × 0 × 0 × European Indoor Championships 2 × 2 × 0 × German championships 1 × 1 × 0 × GDR championships 3 × 5 × 1 × GDR indoor championships 7 × 0 × 1 × European Youth Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Seoul 1988 22.47 m  World championships silver Helsinki 1983 21.16 m  European championships silver Stuttgart 1986 21.84 m gold Split 1990 21.32 m  Indoor world championships gold Indianapolis 1987 22.24 m gold Budapest 1989 21.75 m  European Indoor Championships silver Piraeus 1985 21.44 m gold Liévin 1987 22.19 m gold The Hague 1989 21.68 m silver Glasgow 1990 20.43 m  German championships silver Hanover 1991 19.87 m gold Munich 1992 20.46 m GDR championships bronze Dresden 1982 20.22 m silver Karl-Marx-Stadt 1983 21.08 m silver Erfurt 1984 21.49 m silver Leipzig 1985 21.25 m silver Jena 1986 22.00 m silver Potsdam 1987 21.96 m gold Rostock 1988 21.88 m gold Neubrandenburg 1989 22.03 m gold Dresden 1990 21.08 m GDR indoor championships gold Senftenberg 1983 19.76 m bronze Senftenberg 1984 19.55 m gold Senftenberg 1985 22.15 m gold Senftenberg 1986 21.00 m gold Senftenberg 1987 22.00 m gold Senftenberg 1988 21.20 m gold Senftenberg 1989 22.55 m gold Senftenberg 1990 20.81 m  Junior European Championships silver Utrecht 1981 18.45 m

Ulf Béla Timmermann (born November 1, 1962 in East Berlin ) is a former German athlete . In 1988 he was Olympic champion in the shot put for the GDR . Timmermann was involved in the GDR state doping program .

Life

On February 11, 1989, Ulf Timmermann hits a new indoor European record with 22.55 m in the Aktivist sports hall in Senftenberg

Timmermann started for the Berlin TSC and was one of the world's best shot putters in the 1980s. Only the American Randy Barnes has so far also succeeded in pushing the ball over 23 meters, albeit with the twisting technique . Timmermann broke the world record several times in the course of his career. For the first time in 1985 with 22.62 m. Before the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , he was the first person to hit the ball over 23 meters at 23.06 m on May 22, 1988. The big favorite for the gold medal was the flag bearer of the GDR delegation at the opening ceremony in Seoul and won the hoped-for Olympic victory days later.

Udo Beyer's big competitor in the GDR was GDR champion three times in a row between 1988 and 1990 and won his only all-German championship title in 1992 after reunification. He then also competed for Germany at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , but only finished fifth. He then ended his career. His 23.06 m is a European record to this day. The world record he had to give in 1990 to Randy Barnes with 23.12 m.

At the European Championships in 1986 he was second behind the Swiss Werner Günthör with 21.84 m . In 1990 he won with 21.31 m.

Ulf Timmermann was 1.95 m tall and had a competition weight of 118 kg. His planing technique was considered exemplary, series of images are still used for training today.

Timmermann completed an apprenticeship as a tax clerk, worked as an independent management consultant and is now the managing director of a large bakery. He is divorced and has two children.

Doping in the GDR

In 1991, anti-doping opponents Brigitte Berendonk and Werner Franke were able to secure dozens of dissertations and post-doctoral theses by former GDR doping researchers at the Bad Saarow Military Medical Academy . Based on the work, the state-organized doping practice of many well-known GDR competitive athletes, including Ulf Timmermann, was reconstructed. According to the information, Ulf Timmermann received very high doses of Oral-Turinabol from 1981 to 1984 . Timmermann has denied taking anabolic steroids . Secret GDR studies presented it as a prime example of the benefits of Oral-Turinabol.

Awards (selection)

• 1984 and 1988: Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold

literature

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

Web links

Commons : Ulf Timmermann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Ulf Timmermann in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ City bakery with a new manager. (No longer available online.) JenaTV, July 4, 2013, archived from the original on July 15, 2013 ; Retrieved July 4, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Brigitte Berendonk: Doping documents - From research to fraud. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-540-53742-2 , p. 128, table 8
3. ↑ Swiss Secret Society , Der Spiegel , July 27, 1992