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East German sprinter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bärbel Wöckel (née Eckert; born 21 March 1955) is a former East German sprinter. She never ran a world record in the individual disciplines. However, she ran several world records as part of relay teams with Doris Maletzki, Renate Stecher and Christina Heinich over 4 x 100 meters, the last time on September 8, 1974, in Rome. At the GDR Championships she took first place in the 4 x 100-meter relay in 1974, 1977, 1978, 1981 to 1984. In 1976 she won third place with the team.
Medal record | ||
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Women's athletics | ||
Representing East Germany | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1976 Montreal | 200 m | |
1976 Montreal | 4 × 100 m relay | |
1980 Moscow | 200 m | |
1980 Moscow | 4 × 100 m relay |
Documents uncovered after the fall of communism showed that during this time Wöckel, like many of her East German colleagues, participated in the state-organized doping program. Despite this, her records and medals have been allowed to stand.
Wöckel won four Olympic gold medals between the 200 metres race and 4 × 100 metres relay, two each in the 1976 and 1980 Olympics. In each of those years, Wöckel placed first in the 200 m and 4 × 100 metres relay races.[1]
She won a gold medal at the 1974 European Championships as the anchor of the 4 × 100 m relay, which set a world record of 42.50. She won the gold in the 200 m and as a part of the 4 × 100 m relay team as well as a silver in the 100 metres at the 1982 European Championships.
Bärbel Wöckel competed for the club SC Motor Jena during her active career. She won 4 national 200 metre championships, as well as an indoor title in 1984.
She won 3 European Cup titles in 1981, 200, 4x100, 4x400 metres.
In the IAAF World Cup 1981 she won 2 Gold Medals in 4x100 and 4x400 relays. Also finishing 3rd in the 200.
Her rival, Marita Koch, complained in a letter that Bärbel received higher doses of steroids than her, because she had relatives in the company Jenapharm.[2]
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