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Bärbel Wöckel

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East German sprinter

Bärbel Wöckel

Medal record
Women'sathletics
Representing East Germany
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place1976 Montreal200 m
Gold medal – first place1976 Montreal4 × 100 m relay
Gold medal – first place1980 Moscow200 m
Gold medal – first place1980 Moscow4 × 100 m relay

Bärbel Wöckel (néeEckert; born 21 March 1955) is a formerEast Germansprinter. She never ran a world record in the individual disciplines. However, she ran several world records as part of relay teams withDoris Maletzki,Renate Stecher andChristina Heinich over 4 × 100 meters, the last time on September 8, 1974, inRome.At the GDR Championships she took first place in the 4 × 100-meter relay in 1974, 1977, 1978, 1981 to 1984. In 1976 she won third place with the team.

Documents uncovered after the fall of communism showed that during this time Wöckel, like many of her East German colleagues, was forced to participate in the state-organizeddoping program.[citation needed] Despite this, her records and medals have been allowed to stand.

Biography

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Wöckel won four Olympicgold medals between the200 metres race and4 × 100 metres relay, two each in the1976 and1980 Olympics. In each of those years, Wöckel placed first in the 200 m and4 × 100 metres relay races.[1]

She won a gold medal at the1974 European Championships as the anchor of the 4 × 100 m relay, which set aworld record of 42.50.

In Athens, She won the gold in the 200 m and as a part of the 4 × 100 m relay team as well as asilver in the100 metres at the1982 European Championships.

Bärbel Wöckel competed for the clubSC 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, 4 × 100, 4 × 400 metres.

In the IAAF World Cup 1981 she won 2 Gold Medals in 4 × 100 and 4 × 400 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 companyJenapharm.[2]

Awards Selection

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  • 1974:Patriotic Order of Merit (German:Vaterländischer Verdienstorden, or VVO) in Bronze
  • 1976: Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
  • 1980 and 1984: Patriotic Order of Merit in gold
  • 2018:DLV-Ehrennadel in gold[3]

See also

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References

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  1. ^"Bärbel Wöckel fühlt sich noch fit".leichtathletik.de. dpa/pr. 21 March 2015. Retrieved9 December 2020.
  2. ^Turnbull, Simon (5 September 2010)."After a quarter of a century, Koch remains untouchable".The Independent. Retrieved22 March 2013.
  3. ^"Eberhard Vollmer und Bärbel Wöckel in Halle/Saale vom DLV geehrt".leichtathletik.de. Alexandra Dersch. 26 February 2018. Retrieved9 December 2020.

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Sporting positions
Preceded byWomen's 200 m Best Year Performance
1976		Succeeded by
Preceded byWomen's 200 m Best Year Performance
1980		Succeeded by
1968–1979
1980–1999
2000–2019
2020–
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