Bärbel Wöckel

Bärbel Wöckel (née Eckert; born 21 March 1955) is a former East German sprinter. She never ran a world record in the individual disciplines. However, she ran several world records as part of relay teams with Doris Maletzki, Renate Stecher and Christina Heinich over 4 x 100 meters, the last time on September 8, 1974, in Rome. At the GDR Championships she took first place in the 4 x 100 meter relay in 1974, 1977, 1978, 1981 to 1984. In 1976 she won third place with the team. During this time she was in the state-organized doping program.

Bärbel Wöckel

Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  East Germany
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1976 Montreal200 m
Gold medal – first place 1976 Montreal4 × 100 m relay
Gold medal – first place 1980 Moscow200 m
Gold medal – first place 1980 Moscow4 × 100 m relay

Biography

Wöckel won four Olympic gold medals between the 200 metres race and 4 × 100 metres relay, two each in the 1976 and 1980 Olympics. In each of those years, Wöckel placed first in the 200 m and 4 × 100 metres relay races.[1]

She won a gold medal at the 1974 European Championships as the anchor of the 4 × 100 m relay, which set a world record of 42.50. She won the gold in the 200 m and as a part of the 4 × 100 m relay team as well as a silver in the 100 metres at the 1982 European Championships.

Bärbel Wöckel competed for the club SC Motor Jena during her active career.

Her rival, Marita Koch, complained in a letter that Bärbel received higher doses of steroids than her, because she had relatives in the company Jenapharm.[2]

Awards Selection
  • 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

References
  1. "Bärbel Wöckel fühlt sich noch fit". leichtathletik.de. dpa/pr. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  2. Turnbull, Simon (5 September 2010). "After a quarter of a century, Koch remains untouchable". The Independent. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  3. "Eberhard Vollmer und Bärbel Wöckel in Halle/Saale vom DLV geehrt". leichtathletik.de. Alexandra Dersch. Retrieved 9 December 2020.


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