Grit Breuer

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Grit Breuer

Grit Breuer, 1989 (right)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  East Germany
Olympic Games
Bronze 1988 Seoul 4 × 400 m relay
Representing  Germany
Olympic Games
Bronze 1996 Atlanta 4 × 400 m relay
World Championships
Gold 1997 Athens 4 × 400 m relay
Silver 1991 Tokyo 400 m
Silver 2001 Edmonton 4 × 400 m relay
Bronze 1991 Tokyo 4 × 100 m relay
Bronze 1991 Tokyo 4 × 400 m relay
Bronze 1999 Seville 4 × 400 m relay
World Indoor Championships
Gold 1991 Sevilla 4 × 400 m relay
Gold 1999 Maebashi 400 m
Bronze 1991 Sevilla 200 m
Bronze 1997 Paris 4 × 400 m relay
Bronze 2003 Birmingham 400 m

Grit Breuer (born 16 February 1972 in Röbel) is a former German athlete, who competed in the women's 200 metres, 400 metres, 4×100 m relay, and 4×400 m relay events.

She has received injuries as a result of her sports competition, including a slipped disk in her back and a ligament in her knee. She has also been involved in drugs-related controversy. In 1992 she received a two-year ban from the sport after admitting she had taken clenbuterol. In 2004 she was accused of skipping a drug test in South Africa, but she was cleared on a technicality. She has won two Olympic bronze medals in the 4 × 400 metres relay. Her first was in 1988 competing for East Germany, when she ran in the heats but not the final and the second was in 1996.

Sports accomplishments

1990 European Championships Split, Yugoslavia 1st 400 m 49.50
1991 World Indoor Championships Seville, Spain 3rd 200 m 22.58
1991 World Championships Tokyo, Japan 2nd 400 m 49.42
1991 World Championships Tokyo, Japan 3rd 4×100 m relay 42.33
1991 World Championships Tokyo, Japan 3rd 4×400 m relay
1996 European Indoor Championships Stockholm, Sweden 1st 400 m 50.89
1996 Olympic Games Atlanta, United States 3rd 4×400 m relay 3:21.14
1997 World Indoor Championships Paris, France 3rd 4×400 m relay 3:28.39
1997 World Championships Athens, Greece 1st 4×400 m relay
1998 European Indoor Championships Valencia, Spain 1st 400 m 50.45
1998 European Championships Budapest, Hungary 1st 400 m 49.93
1999 World Indoor Championships Maebashi, Japan 1st 400 m 50.80
1999 World Championships Seville, Spain 3rd 4×400 m relay 3:22.43
2004 Summer Olympics Athens, Greece heats 4×400 m relay 3:27.75

See also

  • Doping cases in athletics

References


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