Antje Harvey (born May 10, 1967 in

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, as Antje Misersky) is a former

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and

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. She began her career as cross country skier and was a member of the

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team that won the 4 × 5 km bronze medal at the

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. When her father, Henner Misersky, who worked as a trainer of the East German team until 1985, refused to give steroid substances to his daughter and other team members, he was fired. Antje Misersky was then put under pressure and had to end her career in the

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.Barbara Bürer, Nils Klawitter
''Doping macht vergeßlich''
Die Zeit, 13/1998 (German) In 1989, she started biathlon. At the

1992 Winter Olympics ) , nations = 64 , athletes = 1,801 (1313 men, 488 women) , events = 57 in 6 sports (12 disciplines) , opening = 8 February 1992 , closing = 23 February 1992 , opened_by = President François Mitterrand , cauldron ...

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, she won the gold medal in 15 km individual and two silvers in the 7.5 km sprint and in the 3 × 7.5 km. At the

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she won another relay silver medal (4 × 7.5 km). Harvey also won two medals in the relay at the World Championships (1995: gold, 1991: bronze). In the spring of 1993, she married

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Ian Harvey whom she had met 15 months earlier at the Biathlon World Cup in Ruhpolding, Germany. In 1995, she retired from competitive sports and moved to

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where she lives with her daughters, Hazel (*1996) and Pearl (*2001). In 2000, she became an

citizen. For her refusal to take part in the systematic doping in the GDR, Antje Harvey received the Heidi-Krieger-Medal in 1995, in

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. The Heidi-Krieger-Medal is a prize of the association Doping-Opfer-Hilfe from Germany.Friedhard Teuffel
''Auszeichnung für Dopingopfer'
Der Tagesspiegel, 22. Juli 2005 (German)Grit Hartmann

Berliner Zeitung, 21. Juli 2005 (German)

Cross-country skiing results

All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).

World Championships

* 1 medal – (1 bronze)

World Cup

Season standings

Team podiums

* 2 podiums Note: Until the 1999 World Championships, World Championship races were included in the World Cup scoring system.

References

External links

* *
Nordic World Ski Championship results
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