Katrin DÃ¶rre-Heinig

Katrin Dorre - Heinig (born Juana Katrin Dorre, born October 6, 1961 in Leipzig ) is a former German long-distance runner, who enjoyed great success, especially in the marathon in the 1980s and 1990s.

Career

First, Katrin Dorre recorded as a track runner. In 1980, she GDR champion in the 3000 meters. Even before the official registration DDR - best times she went to the marathon distance. 1982 she succeeded in Karl- Marx-Stadt, a time of 2:45:54 h your first major success was followed two years later at the Osaka Women's Marathon, which she won in 2:31:41 h. In the same year she put on 21 July in East Berlin with a 2:26:52 h Total German fastest time and won another major marathon in Japan, the Tokyo International Women's Marathon, in which she also 1985 and 1987 (with its second all-German personal best of 2:25:24 h ) won. In 1986, she decided with the Nagoya Marathon the third major woman marathon in Japan itself. In the same year she was honored with the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.

Your first international championship appearance for the GDR had Katrin Dorre the IAAF World Cup Marathon 1985 in Hiroshima, which she won in 2:33:30 h. In the same year she won in Rome at the European Cup Marathon in 2:30:11 h the marathon at the European Championships in 1986 she had to give up because she was in poor health after removal of a abscessed tooth. After a second place at the World Cup Marathon 1987 in Hiroshima, she won the year after, Huy again the European Cup Marathon. On 7 July 1988 she presented in her hometown of Leipzig with 17,709 meters of the general German record in the hours running on that for the past 21 years has stock. At the Olympic Games in Seoul, she won bronze. It is thus far the only German who won an Olympic medal in this discipline. For this achievement, she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

Afterwards she brought a child into the world and had actually already finished with the competitive sport, but decided because of the new opportunities that were created by the turn to continue.

The first big success after re- entry was a third place at the New York City Marathon 1990. As in the 1980s, Japan proved to be a good place for the from Leipzig. In 1991, she again won the Osaka Women's Marathon (two more victories followed in 1996 and 1997), and the marathon of the World Athletics Championships 1991 in Tokyo brought her second bronze medal at a major international event. At the Olympic Games in 1992 in Barcelona and 1996 in Atlanta, she cut in fifth or fourth also excellent from, and also at the World Championships in Stuttgart in 1993, she landed in sixth far forward.

In 1994 she won the Berlin Marathon in 2:25:15 h (simultaneously their third German record over this distance ), and hat tricks get her during the London Marathon, which she won from 1992 to 1994, and at the Frankfurt Marathon, in which they won from 1995 to 1997.

In 1998, she won the Hamburg Marathon. With their victory in the same place a year later she was German Marathon Champion and presented with a course record 2:24:35 h both as well as a German record. The latter was not until almost nine years later undercut by Mikitenko. In the fall it was then for the second time a third party at the New York City Marathon.

In 2000, she was indeed second in the Hamburg Marathon, but surgery for a heel spur forced them shortly thereafter to suspend. More injuries and operations, and infection with mononucleosis prevented thereafter a permanent return to competitive sports.

A total of 35 marathons she stayed under 2:34 hours, a number that has previously been achieved by any other runner (as of December 2008).

Three times she won the Grand Prix of Bern ( 1991, 1992 and 1997 ) and twice at Paderborn Easter Run on the 10-km stretch (1992 and 1996). More success in road races are victories in the night of Borgholzhausen 1990, at the Kassel City Run and the Würzburg Residenz run in 1991 and a sixth place finish at the World Half Marathon Championships 1997 in Košice.

Katrin Dorre started since 1975 for the SC DHfK Leipzig. After the end of the GDR, she moved to the West and went for the LG Odenwald, the LAC and the LAC source Veltins Sauerland at the start. At a size of 1.70 m, they had a competition weight of 57 kg.

In December 1992, she married her coach Wolfgang Heinig and lay the double name. Since the early 1990s, she lives with her husband in Erbach (Odenwald ). Your daughter Katharina, born in 1989 Heinig, which is also trained by Wolfgang Heinig, in 2009 and 2010 German junior champion in the half marathon and won in her debut on the 42,195 -km distance to Cologne Marathon 2010.

As part of the 25th anniversary of the Frankfurt Marathon Dorre - Heinig presented in October 2006 before her first book passion marathon. This tells us about her life as a runner and was created in collaboration with the author Christoph Külzer -Schröder.

Personal Best

800 m: 2:05,4 min, August 9, 1980, Jena
1000 m: 2:44,8 min, July 9, 1980, Berlin
1500 m: 4:18,7 min, August 12, 1979, Karl- Marx-Stadt
3000 m: 9:04,01 min, May 5, 1984 Potsdam
10,000 m: 33:00,0 min, May 30, 1984 Leipzig
10 - km road race: 31:52 min, April 6, 1996, Paderborn
Hours of operation: 17,709 m, July 7, 1988, Leipzig (current German record as of November 2009)
Half Marathon: 1:09:15 h, September 27, 1998 Grevenmacher
Marathon: 2:24:35 h, April 25, 1999 Hamburg (former German record )

Team Ranking half marathon ( with Petra Wassiluk and Iris Biba Pöschl ): 3:32:16 h, 4 October 1997 Košice
Team Ranking Marathon ( with Birgit Weinhold and Gabriele Martins ): 7:36:10 h, September 15, 1985, Rome

Publication

With Christoph Külzer -Schröder: Passion Marathon. The international career of Katrin Dorre - Heinig. Agon Sport Verlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3897842823 Review by Antje Krause on laufreport.de
Review by Jürgen Binder on laufticker.de

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