Marlies Göhr

Marlies Goehr (1978 )

Marlies Goehr, born Oelsner ( born March 21, 1958 in Gera ) is a German track and field athlete and Olympic champion who - starting for the GDR - was in the 1970s and 1980s to the world's best 100-meter runners. They were each twice Olympic champion and world champion and five times European champion. Four times they won the World Cup, twelve times during the European Cup. They also won ten DDR Champion title in the 100 meters and two over 200 meters.

Life

Marlies Goehr grew up as the daughter of a master carpenter on Triptis ( Thuringia). In 1971, she was delegated to the Children and Youth Sports School in Bad Blankenburg. Marlies Goehr is married to the former East German premier league football players Ulrich Göhr (FC Carl Zeiss Jena). 1988, after the Olympic Games in Seoul, she ended her athletics career. On November 9, 1989, she was the mother of a daughter. She studied psychology and now works as a psychologist.

Marlies Goehr competed for the SC Motor Jena and coached at Horst -Dieter Hille. In her playing days, she was 1.65 m tall and weighed 55 kg. She ran on 1 July 1977 as the first woman in the world, the 100 meter below 11.0 seconds exactly in 10.88 s

An individual gold medal in the 100 meters at the Olympic Games it was denied: in Moscow in 1980 it was set by a goal judge decision behind the Russian Lyudmila Kondratjewa in second place. In 1982 she became European champion in the 100 meters, where she defeated Bärbel Wöckel, they also defeated regularly in the GDR championships. In 1984 she was at the Olympics in Los Angeles next to Evelyn Ashford (USA) have been Mitfavoritin, but the former Eastern Bloc boycotted the games. In the post-Olympic duel between the two sprinters a few days after the Olympic world-class sports festival in Zurich ( Switzerland ) Evelyn Ashford won in a new world record time of 10.76 s before Marlies Goehr. Until August 2012, she was co-owner of the world record in the 4 x 100 -meter run: At the World Cup in Canberra on October 6, 1985, she ran together with Silke Gladisch, Sabine Günther and Ingrid Auerswald a time of 41.37 s

She was also known for her running style, a " drum step " which gave the impression that each step too short.

Successes in detail

Doping allegations

1991 could make dozens of theses and dissertations former GDR doping researchers in the Military Medical Academy in Bad Saarow doping opponents Berendonk Brigitte and Werner Franke. Based on the work, let the state-organized doping practices of many well-known East German athletes, including Marlies Goehr reconstruct. According to the information Marlies Goehr got 1983 and 1984, high doses of Oral Turinabol. Compared to the ARD has Göhr, addressed to the doping gift, replies: " You can not be 13 years world-class and run around with doping It is much more.. "

Awards (selection)

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