Dörte Thümmler
Appearance
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Born | East Berlin, East Germany | 29 October 1971|||||||||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Country represented | East Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Level | Senior international elite | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Dörte Thümmler (born 29 October 1971) is a German former gymnast. She competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin / Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo, and competed for East Germany. She won many international competitions.[1][2] In 1987, she was World Champion on the uneven bars (tied with Daniela Silivaș).
Thümmler's career was ended at the age of 16 from back pain.[3] She worked as a restaurant clerk, but had to retire at age 38 due to ill health, in part caused by the effects of forced state-sponsored doping.[3][4] Her stepfather, Manfred Thümmler, was head of sports medicine at SC Dynamo Berlin and a defendant in a 1999 doping trial, though his charges were dropped.[3]
Competitive history
[edit]Year | Event | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
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Junior | |||||||
1985 | Junior Friendship Tournament | 48 | |||||
1986 | Cottbus International | ||||||
Junior European Championships | 16 | ||||||
Junior Friendship Tournament | 4 | 9 | 6 | 6 | |||
Jr. GDR-USSR Dual Meet | 5 | 6 | |||||
Senior | |||||||
1987 | Chunichi Cup | 5 | |||||
Cottbus International | 7 | 5 | |||||
DTV Cup | |||||||
European Championships | 15 | ||||||
GDR Championships | 6 | ||||||
HOL-HUN-GDR Meet | |||||||
Tokyo Cup | 4 | ||||||
World Championships | 6 | 5 | |||||
1988 | Cottbus International | 6 | |||||
GDR Championships | 5 | ||||||
Olympic Games | 7 | 4 | 8 |
References
[edit]- ^ Kunstturnen – Olympische Spiele 1980–1988
- ^ Thümmler
- ^ a b c Kuban, Caroline (25 November 2018). "Wenn ein Staat das Leben seiner Sportler auf Spiel setzt" [When a state puts the lives of its athletes at risk]. Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). Retrieved 21 January 2024.
- ^ Ahrens, Peter (25 April 2018). "DDR-Dopingopfer beklagen psychische Schädigungen" [GDR doping victims complain of psychological damage]. DER SPIEGEL (in German). Retrieved 21 January 2024.
- ^ "Dorte Thümmler (GDR)". Gymn Forum. 25 August 2007. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
External links
[edit]- Uneven Bars 1987 Tokyo
- Uneven Bars 1988 Seoul
- Vault 1988 Seoul
- Balance Beam 1988 Seoul
- Floor Exercise 1988 Seoul
- Floor Exercise 1988 Seoul 2
Categories:
- 1971 births
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- Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
- Gymnasts from Berlin
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- SC Dynamo Berlin sportspeople
- East German female artistic gymnasts
- Gymnasts at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for East Germany
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
- 20th-century German sportswomen
- Sportspeople from East Berlin
- German artistic gymnast stubs