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Heike Drechsler (July 2008)
Heike Gabriela Drechsler née Daute (born 16
December 1964 in Gera, then East Germany) is a
German track and field athlete. She is one of the
most successful female long
jumpers of all time and also had several successes in sprint
disciplines.
She is the only woman who has won two Olympic gold medals in the long jump (1992 and
2000). She also won two World
Championships in the long jump (1983 and 1993), as well as gold
medals in the long jump and the 200 m sprint in the World Indoor
Championships 1987. In addition, she had numerous successes in
European and German championships.
Drechsler's greatest rival in the long jump was Jackie
Joyner-Kersee, with whom she was also very good friends.
In 1986, Drechsler twice equalled Marita Koch's 200 metres sprint world record and set
two long jump world records and equalled one in 1985 and 1986. As
of 2000, she had more than four hundred long jump competitions with
results over seven meters, more than any other female athlete.
As teenager she was active in the Free German Youth (FDJ) and in 1984
she was elected to the Volkskammer of East Germany.
Several German websites, including her own, claim that Heike
Drechsler was voted "Athlete of the Century" in 1999 by the IAAF. This is not
quite correct: she was put on the "shortlist" [1] but the award
was given to Fanny Blankers-Koen [2].
World
Records
Long Jump:
1983: 7.14 meters Bratislava / (Juniors)
1985: 7.44 meters Berlin
1986: 7.45 meters Tallinn
1986: 7.45 meters Dresden
In 1992 Heike Drechsler jumped 7.63 m at altitude in Sestriere Italy with a 2.1
m / sec. wind, over the allowable. That jump is 11 cm longer than
the current world record. Her personal best under legal conditions
was 7.48 set in Neubrandenburg July 9, 1994, which is
still the #4 jump of all time.[1]
200-meter run:
1986: 21.71 seconds Jena
1986: 21.71 seconds Stuttgart
Heptathlon:
1981: 5891 Points (Junior)
Doping
allegations
There were many accusations of drug use while she competed for
East Germany. She has never failed a drug test during her career[3]
In 1991, after the fall of East Germany, Berendonk Brigitte and
Werner Franke wrote several theses and dissertations quoting former
GDR doping researchers in the Military Medical Academy Bad Saarow
(MMA). The basis of the work reconstructed state-organized doping
practices involving many well-known GDR athletes, including Heike
Drechsler. Indications were that Heike Drechsler used high doses
Oral Turinabol plus more testosterone ester injections before
competitions from 1982 to 1984[2]. In
1993, Drechsler challenged Brigitte Berendonk, accusing her of
lying in a lawsuit[3]. In the
case, the full annual dosage schedules, and charts of the
development of sport performance as a function of the dosage amount
were released. Drechsler lost the lawsuit, essentially validating
the claims of the book[4] [5].
References
- ^
http://www.iaaf.org/statistics/toplists/inout=o/age=n/season=0/sex=W/all=y/legal=A/disc=LJ/detail.html
IAAF All time stats
- ^
Brigitte Berendonk: Doping documents - From Research to commit
fraud. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-540-53742-2, p. 125,
Table 7
- ^ ↑
Cf Uwe Mueller / Grit Hartman: Forward and forget it! Kader, spies
and accomplices - The dangerous legacy of the SED dictatorship,
Berlin 2009, p. 215
- ^ ↑
Brigitte Berendonk: Doping documents - From Research to commit
fraud. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-540-53742-2, p. 122,
Fig 6
- ^ ↑
Brigitte Berendonk: Doping documents - From Research to commit
fraud. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-540-53742-2, p. 133,
Figure 11
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