Heike Drechsler
Olympic champion
Heike in 1984
Athletics
Mode Long Jump, Running
Representative Eastern Germany
 Germany
Birth 16 December 1964 (46 years)
Gera, Germany
Complexion Weight: 68 kg Height: 1.80 m
Users
Olympics
Barcelona 1992 Gold Long Jump
Sydney 2000 Gold Long Jump
Seoul 1988 silver Long Jump
Bronze Seoul 1988 100 meter dash
Bronze Seoul 1988 200 meter dash
World Championships
Helsinki 1983 Gold Long Jump
Stuttgart 1993 Gold Long Jump
Silver Rome 1987 100 meter dash
Tokyo 1991 silver Long Jump
Bronze Roma 1987 Long Jump
Tokyo 1991 Bronze 4x100m
World Championships - Indoor
Gold Indianapolis 1987 200 meter dash
Indianapolis 1987 Gold Long Jump
European Championship
Gold Stuttgart 1986 200 meter dash
Stuttgart 1986 Gold Long Jump
Split 1990 Gold Long Jump
Helsinki 1994 Gold Long Jump
Budapest 1998 Gold Long Jump
Gold Split 1990 200 meter dash
 

Heike Drechsler (born Heike Gabriela Daute, Gera, December 16, 1964) is a former athlete of Germany, twice Olympic champion, the only athlete to win two gold medals in this sport of track and field world record twice in the jump female distance.



[Edit] CarreiraCom 1.82 m tall, and was jumping sprinter, competing for East Germany and the reunified Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and won several medals in European championships, world and Olympic in the 100 and 200 m dash, equaling twice the world record of 200 m Marita Koch in 1986.

In the long jump, set two world records in 1985 and 1986. In the years 1980 and 1990, its biggest rival and good friend was the American Jackie Joyner-Kersee.

Heike Drechsler ended his career in October 2004 [1].

[Edit] Informant and doping
Heike 2008.Após in the reunification of Germany and the coming to light of various documents on the athletic committee of the former East Germany, Drechsler was revealed as a possible contributor to non-official (German: Inoffizieller Mitarbeiter, IM) of the Stasi, the police secret state, who spied and reported to the government of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) the behavior of their colleagues in athletics. According to Professor Werner Franke and his wife, Brigitte Berendonk, who wrote several books about doping among athletes of the Iron Curtain, his code name was Jump. [2] The file was opened by the IM Jump Stasi officer and family friend Drechsler Heinz Bergner in view of the preparations of the Ministry for State Security for the Summer Olympics in Seoul in 1988. Bergner said that opened the recruiting process Jump to protect it from attempts to recruit from other departments of the Stasi and Drechsler said he never provided information so conspired or worked for the Stasi. [3] The file was closed in 1988. [4 ] On several occasions, among others in an interview with Der Spiegel in 1995, Heike Drechsler denied ever having been a collaborator unofficial Stasi [5].

Drechsler, as well as virtually all the great athletes of the former East Germany, was also involved in allegations of doping, which was virtually a state sports policy of the sports authorities of this country in the years 1970 and 1980, including the use of anabolic steroids administered orally and hormônimo testosterone [2].

She, however, always claimed to have used banned substances that would be familiar to you. After publication of a writer and researcher Brigitte Berendonk in 1991 stating that competed doped Drechler - consciously or not - between 1982 and 1984 [6] and have been called a liar in public, Drechsler was processed by the author in 1995 and ordered to pay 6000 DM compensation and making a formal statement of apology. [7]

Heike Drechsler in 2001 published her autobiography Absprung. In 2007, she was introduced by the German Athletics (Verband Deutscher Leichtathletik-, DLV) as female candidate for the committee of direction of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), which generated controversy because of the history of the athlete. In an interview with the newspaper Die Welt on August 9, 2007 found an error to deny after the German reunification in 1990 the practice of systematic doping in East Germany but reiterated that he never used doping. [8] Shortly before the start of World Cup Athletics from Osaka, Japan, she was elected to the committee on August 22, 2007. [9] In an interview with Stern magazine in 2008, Drechsler said he can not exclude the possibility that the time be involuntarily treated with illegal substances without their knowledge by doctors who accompanied the athlete at the time [10].