Petra Thümer
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Nationality | East German | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Karl-Marx-Stadt, Sachsen, East Germany now Germany | 29 January 1961|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | SC Karl-Marx-Stadt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Petra Thümer (born 29 January 1961) is a former swimmer from East Germany. She won gold medals in the 400 m and 800 m freestyle at the 1976 Summer Olympics[1] and the 1977 European Aquatics Championships. During her career she set five world records in the 400 m and 800 m freestyle. In 1987 she was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.[2]
Later she admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs as part of the East German training system.[3][4] For this reason she missed the 1978 World Championships – coaches feared she would not pass the doping test and excluded her from the East German team, officially explaining her absence by injuries.[5]
In 1979 she retired from swimming and worked as a photographer.[3]
She was married to the German Olympic athletes Klaus Katzur (swimmer) and Alf-Gerd Deckert (cross-country skier).[1]
References
- ^ a b Petra Thümer. sports-reference.com
- ^ PETRA THUMER (GDR) Archived 2007-01-12 at the Wayback Machine. ishof.org
- ^ a b Thümer, Petra. bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de
- ^ Von Männern geschlagen. Der Spiegel (14 September 1998)
- ^ Matthias Krause (21 April 1998). Die Spritzen waren immer fertig aufgezogen. berliner-zeitung.de
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