Manuela Stellmach

Manuela Stellmach ( 2nd from right) at the East German Swimming Championships in Erfurt ( 1987)

Manuela Stellmach ( born February 22, 1970 in Berlin ) is a German former swimmer who started both the GDR and after the reunification of Germany.

Career

The greatest successes reach the freestyle specialist with the seasons. So it was in 1985 with the GDR Season 4 × 100 meter freestyle European champion, 1986 world champion in the 4 × 100 meters and 4 × 200 meter freestyle and 1988 in Seoul along with Kristin Otto, Katrin Meissner and Daniela Hunger Olympic Champion with 4 × 100 meter freestyle relay. On the individual routes she was mostly shaded by Heike Friedrich. The only individual success was the title of the 200m freestyle at the European Championships in 1989 in Bonn.

You could, together with the DDR freestyle relay to improve the world record 4 x 200 meters each at the World Swimming Championships 1986 in Madrid and at the European Swimming Championships 1987 in Strasbourg.

Manuela Stellmach was one of the few swimmers from the GDR who were successful even after turning on. She won with German squadrons still title at World and European Championships. In 1994, she ended her career.

In 1986 she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and 1988 gold.

Reference to the GDR doping

In the course of the GDR doping process, where she was charged before the Regional Court of Berlin as a witness, was known among other things, that Volker Frischke, the Deputy Mach trainer in the B national team of East Germany was in the 1980s, their anabolic steroids has administered.