Ulrike Tauber

Ulrike Tauber
Ulrike Tauber at the GDR indoor swimming championships in Rostock (1978)
Personal information
Surname:	Ulrike Tauber
Nation:	German Democratic Republic
Swimming style (s) :	Layers, backs, butterflies
Birthday:	June 16, 1958
Place of birth:	Karl Marx City
Size:	1.73 m
Medal table

Ulrike Tauber (born June 16, 1958 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a former German swimmer who competed for the GDR .

Career

She celebrated her first major success by winning gold medals at the 1974 European Championships in Vienna over 200 meters and 400 meters of individual medley courses . She also won silver over 100 meters and 200 meters back . Her next successes were the world championship title in the 400 meter medley at the 1975 World Championships in Cali and victory at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal over the same distance. She also won the silver medal over the 200 meter butterfly distance at these summer games. The following year she was able to defend both titles over the two individual medley courses at the European Championships in Jönköping in 1977 .

At the World Swimming Championships in 1978 in West Berlin , she could not defend her title in the 400 meter medley, where she only had to admit defeat to the American Tracy Caulkins and won the silver medal. She was third in the 200 meter medley.

After the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , where she could no longer win a medal, she resigned from competitive sports and became a doctor. In 1988 she was inducted into the international swimming pool 's hall of fame . In 1976 she was awarded the Silver Patriotic Order of Merit . She was a world swimmer in 1974 and 1977. Both awards were withdrawn in 2013.

GDR doping

In the course of the GDR doping process and the related investigations and archival processing of the doping practices of GDR doctors and sports officials , among other things, doping plan specifications were found by Ulrike Tauber. A medical doping program as well as a subsequent recovery therapy was developed for Tauber. She is also one of those athletes who admit that she is doping complicit. Tauber was stripped of her award as “ World Swimmer of the Year ” by the US magazine “Swimming World”.

Web links

Commons : Ulrike Tauber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ulrike Tauber in the International Swimming Hall of Fame (English)
• Ulrike Tauber in the Swimrankings.net database (English)
• Ulrike Tauber in the Olympedia.org database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In: New Germany . ZEFYS newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (free registration required). 
2. ↑ Quintet around Kristin Otto loses awards Handelsblatt December 3, 2013 ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
3. ^ "Children - Playballs for Doctors and Trainers" online at the Berliner Zeitung , April 8, 1994; As of May 6, 2009 .
4. ^ "Exclusive forum for a startling debate" online at the Berliner Zeitung , October 18, 1997; As of May 6, 2009 .
5. ↑ "The doping noose to" in Spiegel Online , September 5, 2000; As of May 6, 2009 .
6. ↑ "Swimmer of the Year": Kristin Otto loses her award. In: Spiegel Online . December 3, 2013, accessed June 9, 2018 .