Ute Geweniger
Ute tissue Niger in the East German Swimming Championships in Erfurt ( 1982)
Ute Geweniger ( born February 24, 1964 in Karl- Marx-Stadt ) is a German former swimming athlete, who - starting for the GDR - 1980 to 1983 belonged to the world's best. She won a total of 16 medals at Olympic Games, World and European Championships, including 13 gold.
Career
The most successful she was on the track 100m breaststroke: Here she improved the world record six times, and won the gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. A second victory in these games, she succeeded in the 4x100 -meter medley relay in the GDR.
At the European Championships in Split 1981 she won five times - the 100m breaststroke (world record: 1:08,60 min) and 200m breaststroke, 100m butterfly, 200m individual medley and the 4x100 -meter medley relay in the GDR. For this she was elected the same year to the GDR female athlete of the year and by the World Association of Sports Journalists Association Internationale de la Presse Sportive ( AIPS ) to the World Sportswoman of the Year.
Other successes
Ute Geweniger competed for the SC Karl- Marx-Stadt and trained with Joachim Rother. After the dissolution of the GDR, she opened a beauty salon in her hometown of Chemnitz.
GDR doping
In 2005, Niger tissue confirmed that their successes and records with the help of illegal performance-enhancing substances were administered systematically under state supervision, howsoever caused. Unlike, for example, the 400 - meter individual medley Olympic medalist, World and European champion Petra Schneider, who also admits her doping offense, it is against a reset still current records from this period, as these are associated with a lot of hard work.