Kerstin Kielgass

Kerstin Kielgaß (far right) in the GDR Swimming Championships in Erfurt ( 1987)

Kerstin Kielgaß (December 6, 1969 in East Berlin) is a former German swimmer.

Career

She was a total of 15 years in professional sports active. Your first title she won in 1985 at the European Championships in Sofia with the 4 × 100 meter freestyle relay in the GDR.

World Champion title with the freestyle relay, this time 4 × 100 meters, she could win each in Perth in 1991 and 1998.

In addition to eight successes with the two freestyle relays she was in Vienna in 1995 European Champion in the 200 meters and 1997 in Seville about 800 meters freestyle track.

At Olympic Games she could collect a total of four medals. In Barcelona in 1992 it was about 200 meters freestyle and with the German 4 × 100 meters freestyle relay each others. In Atlanta in 1996, she won the silver medal in the 4 × 200 meter freestyle relay. After the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, where she won bronze in the 4 × 200 meter freestyle relay again, she announced her departure from swimming.

In 1986 she was awarded in the GDR with the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

GDR doping

In the course of the GDR doping process and the related research and archival work-ups of the practices of the East German physician and sports officials was known among other things, that Volker Frischke who was Kielgaß ' coach in the B national squad of the GDR in the 1980s, their anabolic has administered steroids.