Sigrun Wodars
Sigrun Wodars, born Sigrun Louis, his second wife Sigrun Grey ( born November 7, 1965 in New Kaliß ) is a former German track and field athlete. For the GDR, starting in 1988, she was Olympic champion in the 800 -meter run.
Life
Wodars competed for the SC Neubrandenburg. There they trained together with Christine Wachtel, who was also her rival in the finals several times in international highlights. Coaches of both athletes was Walter Gladrow. Under her birth name Sigrun Louis was 1982 DDR Junior National Champion in the 400 -meter run. At the Junior European Championships 1983, she won the bronze medal with the 4 x 400 - meter relay.
At the European Indoor Championships 1986, she won the title in the 800 -meter run and won silver in the open air at the European Championships in the same year. In 1987, she was at the European Indoor Championships second behind Christine Wachtel, but was able to win at the world championships in Rome in a time of 1:55,26 min, which represents German record even in January 2013, the title.
After Wodars had won gold in the 800 - meter sprint at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, for which she received the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold, it was 1989 World Cup silver medalist and European Cup runner-up on this track and also won the 4-by- 400 - meter relay in the GDR the European Cup.
Your last title was won Sigrun Wodars in Split at the European Championships in 1990 in the 800 meters. After the second marriage she started under the name Sigrun Grey at the World Athletics Championships in 1991 and at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, however, difference in the heats of.
In her playing days, she was 1.66 m tall and 54 kg. In an examination of witnesses in the ZERV she gave in 1998 to have taken from November 1983 to mid-1990, the regular Oral- Turinabol anabolic steroids and STS.
Wodars studied sports science at the DHfK Leipzig, branch Neubrandenburg, and was qualified sports teacher. Parallel she trained as a physiotherapist. After the end of their sports career, she works as a teacher at a vocational school for physiotherapy in Neubrandenburg.