Katrin Krabbe
Katrin Krabbe in July 1988
Katrin Krabbe (after marriage crab -Zimmermann, born November 22, 1969 in Neubrandenburg ) is a former German track and field athlete. The sprinter was World Sportswoman of the Year 1991.
After doping allegations she has been banned for several years for taking part in competitions. She was successful in a judicial proceeding in which they successfully fought successfully against the international athletics federation compensation payments ( 1.2 million DM). However, with their attempt to successfully continue their sports career after several years break, they failed.
Sporting career
At twelve, Katrin Krabbe started at SC Neubrandenburg, the club where her father football league players and coaches was later, with regular running training. Their coach was from the beginning Thomas Springstein. They quickly came to the first successes. In the children 's and young people of the GDR in 1985 she was second in the 100 and third 200 meters. At the Junior World Championships in 1986, the then 16 -year-old was already one of the most successful gymnasts.
At the Junior World Championships in 1988 in Greater Sudbury, she won the 200 meters and the 4 x 100 - meter relay. Your personal best at athletics sports festival in East Berlin in the 100 meters of 10.89 s earned her qualification for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. There, she reached the 200m semi-final and then retired in sixth with 22.59 s from.
The breakthrough came at the European Championships in 1990 in Split. There, she won three gold medals; about 100, 200 meters and the 4 x 100 - meter relay. In 1991, the double victory followed at the German Championships in Hanover. At the World Championships in Tokyo, she was the superior runner. With 10.99 s and 22.09 s, they took the 100 and 200 meters gold and beat doing their great rivals Gwen Torrence and Merlene Ottey. Already in 1990, elected to the German Sportswoman of the Year, it was 1991 again German Sportswoman of the Year and World track and field athlete of the year and World Sportswoman of the Year. In 1990, she chose the Association of European sports journalists ( UEPS ) to Europe's sportswoman of the year, the same title she won in 1991 with the election of the press agency Polska Agencja Prasowa (PAP).
Katrin Krabbe is 1,82 m tall and weighed 61 kg in their active time.
Doping scandals
On 23 July 1992 Katrin Krabbe ended career. After a urine sample with her training partner and Grit Breuer doping agent clenbuterol was detected. Although the asthma drug containing the active ingredient, at that time was not yet on the official doping lists, both athletes were blocked by the German Athletics Association for one year. The International Association of Athletics Federations IAAF extended this ban for unsportsmanlike conduct by a further two years until August 1995. A comeback attempt failed.
Unlike Grit Breuer, who accepted the sanctions and 1995, their track career continued with a comeback, Katrin Krabbe processed against the barrier and got 1995 and 1996, confirmed by the District Court or the Higher Regional Court of Munich, that a more than two -year ban affects the fundamental right to freedom of occupation. Both courts recognized a claim for damages, so the district court of Munich in 2001 the International Association of Athletics Federations damages sentenced to a payment of DM 1.2 million for loss of starting and prize money and sponsorship money from 1994. In this context, the end of 2008 was imposed by the District Court of Neubrandenburg a fine for tax evasion against them.
Katrin Krabbe -Zimmermann (after her marriage to lawyer and former Vice rowing world champion Michael Zimmermann) pursued her athletic career after the failed comeback attempt no further. Now she has two sons and ran a shop in Neubrandenburg, which she had with her former fiance, the canoeists Torsten Krenz opened together. After her bankruptcy, she worked in customer service a car dealership.