Margitta Gummel
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Birth name | Margitta Helmbold | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | East Germany Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Magdeburg, Saxony, Prussia, Germany | 29 June 1941||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 26 January 2021[1] Wietmarschen, Lower Saxony, Germany | (aged 79)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 90 kg (198 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Shot put | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | SC DHfK, Leipzig | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best | 20.22 m (1972) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Margitta Gummel (née Helmbold, 29 June 1941 – 26 January 2021) was a German Olympic gold medal-winning shot putter. She competed for
Career
Margitta Gummel did not win any medals in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where she competed in the shot put event. Later, at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, she won a gold medal in the shot put event, and four years later, a silver medal in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, having been beaten by her rival Nadezhda Chizhova.[4] In the 1968 shot put event, she became the first woman to throw for more than 19 metres.[5]
Gummel also competed for East Germany at the
She also competed in the European Athletics Championships. At the 1966 Championships, held in Budapest, she placed second in the women's shot put. Chizhova placed first. She later competed in the 1969 Championships, held in Athens, with the same results.[6] She also participated in the 1971 Championships, held in Helsinki, but this time received third as her rival Chizhova placed first.[7]
It was later revealed that Gummel was one of the first East Germans to be administered
Gummel was administered Turinabol at a dosage of merely 10 mg daily leading up to the 1968 Olympics where her throws improved from 17 m to 19 m in the three-month cycle. In the years following higher dosages of Turinabol were used with performance increasing in a dose dependent manner, and her throws improved to well over the 20m mark. The scientifically produced graphs listed in the 1997 Werner Franke report demonstrate that even when the steroids were stopped there was still a profound "residual" effect from the multiple steroid cycles administered and Gummel's performances were still significantly better off the drugs during breaks compared to 1968 before she had been exposed to them. Simply put, the GDR researchers commented that anabolic steroid use in females produced significant increases in athletic performance that were far superior to years of training naturally. The GDR then began experiments with Turinabol on much younger females at 13–14 years of age, particularly in sports such as swimming.
See also
References
- ^ Kugelstoß-Olympiasiegerin Margitta Gummel gestorben (in German)
- ^ Margitta Helmbold-Gummel. sports-reference.com
- ^ Casey, Ron. "Margitta Gummel". sporting-heroes.net. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- ^ "Athletics at the 1972 München Summer Games: Women's Shot Put". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- ^ Casey, Ron. "Margitta Gummel". sporting-heroes.net. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- ^ "Athens 69, Women's Results". athletix.org. Archived from the original on 14 April 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- ^ "Helsinki 71, Women's Results". athletix.org. Archived from the original on 14 April 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- ISBN 1845133307
- PMID 9216474.
Sources
- "Margitta Gummel-Helmbold Biography and Statistics". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 21 January 2009. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- "Margitta Gummel-Helmbold Olympic medals and stats". databaseolympics.com. Archived from the original on 19 February 2007. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- "European Indoor Championships". gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- "Budapest 66, Women's Results". athletix.org. Archived from the original on 26 February 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2009.