Grit Breuer

Medal record
Grit Breuer, 1989 (right)
Women’s Athletics
Competitor for East Germany
Olympic Games
Bronze	1988 Seoul	4x400 m relay
Competitor for Germany
Olympic Games
Bronze	1996 Atlanta	4x400 m relay
World Championships
Gold	1997 Athens	4x400 m relay
Silver	1991 Tokyo	400 m
Silver	2001 Edmonton	4x400 m relay
Bronze	1991 Tokyo	4x100 m relay
Bronze	1991 Tokyo	4x400 m relay
Bronze	1999 Seville	4x400 m relay
World Indoor Championships
Gold	1991 Sevilla	4x400 m relay
Gold	1999 Maebashi	400 m
Bronze	1991 Sevilla	200 m
Bronze	1997 Paris	4x400 m relay
Bronze	2003 Birmingham	400 m

Grit Breuer (born February 16, 1972 in Röbel, GDR) is a former East German athlete, who competed in the women's 200m, 400m, 4x100m, and 4x400m events.

She has received injuries as a result of her sports competition, including a slipped disk in her back and a ligament in her knee. She has also been involved in drugs-related controversy. In 1992 she received a two year ban from the sport after admitting she had taken clenbuterol. In 2004 she was accused of skipping a drug test in South Africa, but she was cleared on a technicality. She has won two Olympic bronze medals in the 4x400 metres relay. Her first was in 1988 competng for East Germany, when she ran in the heats but not the final and the second was in 1996.

Sports accomplishments

Year	Event	Place/Medal	Time
Women's 200 m
1991	IAAF World Indoor Championships	Bronze medal	22.58
Women's 400 m
1990	European Championships in Athletics	Gold medal	49.50
1991	World Championships in Athletics	Silver medal	49.42
1996	European Indoor Championships in Athletics	Gold medal	50.89
1998	European Indoor Athletics Championships	Gold medal	50.45
1998	European Championships in Athletics	Gold medal	49.93
1999	IAAF World Indoor Championships	Gold medal	50.80
Women's 4 x 100 m
1991	World Championships in Athletics	Bronze medal	42.33
Women's 4 x 400 m relay
1991	World Championships in Athletics	Bronze medal	3.21.25
1996	Summer Olympics	Bronze medal	3:21.14
1997	IAAF World Indoor Championships	Bronze medal	3:28.39
1997	World Championships in Athletics	Gold medal	3.20.92
1999	World Championships in Athletics	Bronze medal	3:22.43
2004	Summer Olympics	4th (second heat)	3:27.75

See also

• List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences

External links

• East Germany's Doping Legacy Returns