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Former East German athlete wants record deleted

26.01.2010 World

Former East German sprinter Gesine Tettenborn Has asked the German athletics federation to erase the name from the German 4x400m record.

The record, which was then recorded as a new world record, now still stands as the time to beat for Germany. „I had become increasingly aware my name would remain forever associated with this record unless I did something,“ Tettenborn told weekly magazine Der Spiegel. „I would, in a way, feel responsible should young athletes use drugs in an effort to try and beat this record.“

Tettenborn, who compete under her maiden name of Walther, admitted taking doping products to prepare for the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, when aged just 17. „My coach would have exploded in rage if I had said I did not want to take these pills anymore,“ she said. Another former GDR sprinter, Ines Geipel, has also made a similar step, asking the German Athletics Federation to have her name removed from the 4x100m world club record.


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