Uta Pippig
Uta Pippig 
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| birthday | 7th September 1965 (age 54) | |||||||||
| place of birth | Leipzig , Germany | |||||||||
| size | 168 cm | |||||||||
| Weight | 50 kg | |||||||||
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| Best performance | 31:21:36 h (10,000 m) 2:21:45 h (marathon) |
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| status | resigned | |||||||||
| End of career | 2004 | |||||||||
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Uta Pippig (born September 7, 1965 in Leipzig ) is a former German long-distance runner who had her greatest successes on the marathon distance and started at the Summer Olympics in 1992 and 1996.
Athletic and personal career
Pippig was born as the daughter of two doctors in Leipzig , grew up in the GDR and began long-distance running at the age of 13. Trainers included Friedrich Janke and Dieter Hogen .
In 1986 and 1987 she was GDR marathon champion because of her victories at the Leipzig marathon .
She studied medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin , and for another four years at the Free University of Berlin , but did not finish her studies in order to devote herself entirely to her sporting career. In January 1990 she left the GDR (before reunification ) and won the Eurocross race in Luxembourg and the Berlin marathon that same year . In 1991 Pippig took sixth place on 10,000 m at the World Athletics Championships, third place at the World Road Running Championships on the 15 km distance and in 1992 seventh place at the Olympic Games.
She won again at Berlin and in 1993 she won the New York City Marathon . In 1994 she won the Boston Marathon with 2:21:45 h, setting her personal best. It was the fastest time ever run by a German and was only beaten by Irina Mikitenko in 2008. Pippig then won the Boston and Berlin Marathons in 1995 and the Boston Marathon again in 1996, despite worsening ischemic colitis (intestinal inflammation). At the marathon of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , Pippig had to give up after 35 km because of her intestinal problems, although she had previously been in the lead.
In 1998, during a doping control outside of the competition time, the testosterone / epitestosterone quotient was too high . The DLV then tried to impose a two-year ban on Pippig. However, she took legal action because she was taking a contraceptive and suffered from chronic intestinal inflammation, which was not taken into account when evaluating the results. The dispute ended with an arbitration settlement in which the DLV withdrew the ban and any indication of a doping violation.
In 2004 Pippig retired from competitive sports. With a height of 1.68 m, she had a competition weight of 50 kg.
Activities after finishing your running career
Pippig has also taken American citizenship in addition to German and lives in the USA . There she uses her popularity to support charitable projects, e.g. B. the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston .
On November 20, 2006 Uta Pippig became president of the company "Take The Magic Step" in Boca Raton , Florida , which sells various offers from Pippig, such as the running and fitness program of the same name and the international lecture series "Running To Freedom", which has been offered since 2012 in which individual and social cross-references between running, fitness and the concept of freedom are made and linked to Pippig's personal résumé.
Since 2016, Pippig has published articles in the column “Running legend Uta Pippig” for the daily newspaper Die Welt and writes the column “Utas Fußnote” for the running magazine run time & condition . Pippig has also been working as an expert for the Berlin Marathon since 2017 .
Results
| year | event | place | space | route | time |
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| 1986 | Leipzig marathon | Leipzig | 1. | marathon | 2:37:56 |
| 1987 | World Athletics Championships | Rome | 14th | marathon | 2:39:30 |
| Leipzig marathon | Leipzig | 1. | marathon | 2:30:50 | |
| 1990 | Berlin marathon | Berlin | 1. | marathon | 2:28:37 |
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| 1991 | World Athletics Championships | Tokyo | 6th | 10,000 m | 31: 55.68 |
| World Women's Road Race Championships | Nieuwegein | 3. | 15 km | 48:44 | |
| 1992 | Olympic Summer Games | Barcelona | 7th | 10,000 m | 31:36:45 |
| Berlin marathon | Berlin | 1. | marathon | 2:30:22 | |
| 1993 | World Athletics Championships | Stuttgart | 9. | 10,000 m | 31: 39.97 |
| New York Marathon | new York | 1. | marathon | 2:26:24 | |
| 1994 | Boston marathon | Boston | 1. | marathon | 2:21:45 |
| 1995 | Boston marathon | Boston | 1. | marathon | 2:25:11 |
| Berlin marathon | Berlin | 1. | marathon | 2:25:37 | |
| 1996 | Boston marathon | Boston | 1. | marathon | 2:27:12 |
| Olympic Summer Games | Atlanta | - | marathon | canceled | |
Web links
- Official website of Uta Pippig
- Uta Pippig in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Short biography of Uta Pippig in Who was who in the GDR?
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leipzig, Berlin, New York, Boston: Stations in the course of a legend (article of the LaRaScho forum) last accessed on May 2, 2019
- ↑ Eurocross results
- ↑ Interview with Uta Pippig in the Berliner Tagesspiegel 1998
- ^ Uta Pippig gets clear record
- ↑ Description of the lecture series "Running To Freedom"
- ↑ Article on the announcement of Pippig's column for the magazine Saison & Condition
- ↑ Running column Berlin Marathon
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| SURNAME | Pippig, Uta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German long-distance runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig , German Democratic Republic |