Uta Pippig
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Uta Pippig (born September 7, 1965 in Leipzig) is a former German female long-distance runner, who won the marathon championships of the GDR in 1986 and 1987. She also won the Berlin Marathon in 1990, 1992 and 1995, the Boston Marathon (1994, 1995 and 1996) and the New York City Marathon (1993).
Pippig also competed in marathon at the 1996 Summer Olympics, but without finishing the race. In 1998 a drugs test revealed high testosterone levels and she was banned for two years by the German Athletics Federation. [1]
The only 1.67m tall athlete is more popular in the USA than in Germany, and holds an American passport as well as a German.
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