Stephanie Graf
Stephanie " Steffi " Graf (after marriage Graf- Zitny ) (born 26 April 1973 in Klagenfurt ) is a former Austrian track and field athlete, who celebrated her biggest success by winning the silver medal in the 800 -meter run at the Summer Olympic Games in 2000.
Life
Stephanie Graf followed in the footsteps of her mother Rita Graf. She was also a 800 -meter runner and has been in this discipline in 1974 Austrian Champion. The Sporting Life by Stephanie Graf was coined in the best years, especially by legendary duels with Maria de Lurdes Mutola, where she was defeated but mostly. One of the sporting highlights include a silver medal in the 800 -meter run at the Summer Olympic Games 2000 in Sydney and the elections to the Austrian Sportswoman of the Year in 2000 and 2001, as well as to Europe's athlete of the year 2001. In 2004, it was shortly before the Summer Olympics surprisingly known in Athens they were withdrawing from high-performance sports. At 1,70 m in height, she was around 58 kg during her runner - career.
In August 2005 she married at the registry office peoples market the Austrian professional golfer Niki Zitny. She changed her surname in Graf- Zitny. January 2006, the couple got a son. November 2008 was the divorce. Since the beginning of 2009, she is dating Christian Baha, with whom she a daughter (* 2010). Stephanie Graf occurred in the third season of Dancing Stars Austria in March 2007. She left with partner Andy Kainz out in the third round. Since her resignation as a line athlete, she was a columnist at the Courier until the summer of 2009. For the ORF were made co- presenters at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
Doping
At a press conference November 2009 Stephanie Graf confirmed in the autumn of 2003 autologous blood at the Vienna blood bank human plasma to have disposed of, without, however, " recirculate " to make it later.
Since April 2007, Graf has also served the function of an athlete representative in the Austrian Sports Aid. Once reported, but the Tiroler Tageszeitung, " 55 flagships of the domestic sport" had raised the demand because of their unclear doping past, you almost put the resignation of the office, she resigned in May 2010. Before that, the marathon runner Andrea Mayr had lashed out at the public role as Count Sportfunktionärin and commentator. In June 2010, imposed the National Anti -Doping Agency Austria ( NADA) because of the " trial of the use of a prohibited doping technique" a two -year ban. Stephanie Graf was trained, among others, by former Leipzig sports medicine Helmut Stab knife to his proteges, the Jolanda Ceplak convicted of doping and included Susanne Pumper.
Sporting successes
Personal best
- 200 m: 25.42 s, September 15, 1996 Dublin
- 400 m: 52.69 s, 12 June 1999 Tel Aviv
- 800 m: 1:56,64 min, September 25, 2000, Sydney
- 800 m (Hall ): 1:55,85 min, March 3, 2002 Vienna
- 1000 m: 2:34,47 min, August 28, 1998 Brussels
- 1500 m: 4:13,58 min, August 21, 1996, Linz
Power development
Awards (excerpt)
- 2000: Silver Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria