Barbara Krause

Barbara Krause ( 1979)

Barbara Krause ( * July 7, 1959 in East Berlin ) is a German former swimmer and multiple Olympic champion who competed for East Germany.

Career

Your first title, she won the 100m freestyle relay at the World Swimming Championships in 1975 in Cali with the 4 ×. In 1977, she was then about 100 m freestyle and three times with the two seasons of the East European champion. The following year, then followed for an otherwise disappointing for the GDR running World Cup 1978 World Champion title over 100m freestyle. The final highlight of her career then followed at the Summer Olympic Games in 1980, when it was about 100 m freestyle, 200 m freestyle and the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay Olympic gold medalist.

You could improve further the world record for the 100 meters freestyle at the world championships in 1978 and at the 1980 Olympic Games three times and world records in the 200 meter freestyle in 1978 in Berlin once.

In 1988, she was inducted into the Hall of Fame International Swimming Sports. She was also in the GDR several times the Patriotic Order of Merit.

Private

Barbara Krause is married to the former German swimmer Lutz Vanya.

GDR doping

Their successes have to be like that of many other East German top athletes considered due to the systematic administration of illegal performance-enhancing substances by East German sports officials, doctors and trainers in a different light.

The 1976 Olympics in Montreal they missed officially due to illness, while she was due to a wrong calculated doping dose and an associated feared positive doping test, but in reality denied the participation of the GDR team doctors.

Barbara Krause also experienced a particular form of impact as most likely a result of the use of anabolic steroids by bringing two severely disabled children.