East German sprinter

Bärbel Wöckel (née Eckert; born 21 March 1955 in Leipzig) is a retired East German sprinter. She never ran a world record in the individual disciplines. However, she ran several world records as part of relay teams with Doris Maletzki, Renate Stecher and Christina Heinich over 4 x 100 meters, the last time on September 8, 1974, in Rome.At the GDR Championships she took first place in the 4 x 100 meter relay in 1974, 1977, 1978, 1981 to 1984. In 1976 she won third place with the team. During this time she was in the state-organized doping program.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Awards Selection
• 3 See also
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Biography

Wöckel won four Olympic gold medals between the 200 metres race and 4 × 100 metres relay, two each in the 1976 and 1980 Olympics. In each of those years, Wöckel placed first in the 200 m and 4 × 100 metres relay races.

She won a gold medal at the 1974 European Championships as the anchor of the 4 × 100 m relay, which set a world record of 42.50. She won the gold in the 200 m and as a part of the 4 × 100 m relay team as well as a silver in the 100 metres at the 1982 European Championships.

Bärbel Wöckel competed for the club SC Motor Jena during her active career.

Her rival, Marita Koch, complained in a letter that Bärbel received higher doses of *s than her, because she had relatives in the company Jenapharm.

Awards Selection

• 1974: Patriotic Order of Merit (German: Vaterländischer Verdienstorden, or VVO) in Bronze
• 1976: Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
• 1980 and 1984: Patriotic Order of Merit in gold
• 2018: DLV-Ehrennadel in gold

See also

• German all-time top lists – 100 metres
• German all-time top lists – 200 metres
• List of multiple Olympic gold medalists

References

External links

• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et:al. "Bärbel Eckert-Wöckel". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.