Rica Reinisch

Rica Reinisch (center) at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow

Rica Reinisch Rica also Neumann and Neumann Rica Reinisch ( born April 6, 1965 in Seifhennersdorf ) is a former German swimmer who competed for East Germany.

Career

Rica Reinisch took at the age of eight years for the first time at a swim meet part and then became a student of the Dresden school sports. At twelve, she swam already on the 100 m distance in backstroke 01:14,3 min. At 14, she won the World No. 20 in this range without 01:04,84 min.

At the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980, she won three gold medals. She won each in world record time in the 100 meters and 200 meter backstroke and the 4 × 100 -meter medley relay. For these achievements, she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.

After a collapse in a 1982 training camp in Ukraine as a result of inflammation of the ovaries, they had to give up competitive sports. In 1989 she was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the international swimming sport.

Doping

Reinisch had after her time as a top swimmer massive health problems that were a result of systematically administered anabolic steroids. She suffered, inter alia, from chronic ovarian inflammation, cardiac arrhythmias, and three inflammation of the heart muscle. They also suffered two miscarriages.

In May 2000, Reinisch said as a witness before the Berlin Regional Court in the trial against Manfred Ewald, the former chairman of the German Gymnastics and Sports Association of the GDR and the National Olympic Committee of the GDR, as well as against Manfred Hoeppner, the deputy director of the Sports Medicine Service of the GDR, from.

Private

Reinisch mother of two children, lives in Eschweiler and works as a marketing manager at Alemannia Aachen.