Bettine Jahn
Bettine Jahn, born Gärtz ( born August 3, 1958 in Magdeburg ) is a former German track and field athlete and Olympian, who - starting for the GDR - at the World Championships 1983 Gold Medal in the 100 meter hurdles.
Life
They started in the Olympic Games in 1980, where he was seventh. In 1982 she became European Indoor champion in the 60 meter hurdles and reached outdoors at the European Championships in fourth place. The following year, Jahn was able to defend their European title in Budapest in the hall. In Helsinki it was then world champion ( 12.35 s, with wind assistance). They also won this year at the European Cup in London and presented on June 8, 1983 in Berlin in 12.42 s the valid today German record.
At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, she was unable to attend because of the boycott of the GDR. In 1985, she became the mother of a daughter. She attempted a comeback, but without any major success. In 1988, she ended her active career. Bettine Jahn started for the SC Karl- Marx-Stadt and coached at Claus 's son in law and Bernd Schubert. In her competition time, she was 1.70 m tall and weighed 61 kg.
In the becoming public knowledge after the fall of documents to the state doping in the GDR was found in the doped athletes also the name of Jahn. In 1997, she stated during a hearing of witnesses in advance of the Ewald / Hoeppner process that 1977/1978 a conversation with her coach 's son in law took place, which had declared her without performance-enhancing drugs would not have a chance to become world-class. She had then itself decided voluntarily and without compulsion for it to take this to enhance performance. 1983 - ie in its German cup record - it had received injections in the immediate preparation for the highlight of the year ( World Championships in Helsinki in August 1983).
Jahn studied Textile Technology in Chemnitz and graduated in 1991 with a diploma. She found after the end of the GDR, given the decline of the Saxon textile industry no job and moved to the banking industry. There she was a branch manager in Chemnitz.