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Silke Möller ( Gladisch, born 20 June 1964) is a German
athlete An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance. Sometimes, the word "athlete" is used to refer specifically to sport of athletics competitors, i.e. including track ...
, who in the 1980s competed for
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as one of the best female sprinters in the world. She was a member of the East German quartet that broke the
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in the 4 × 100 m relay at the World cup in
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on 6 October 1985. She and teammates
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,
Marlies Göhr Marlies Göhr ( Oelsner, born 21 March 1958 in Gera) is a former East German track and field athlete, the winner of the 100 metres at the inaugural World Championships in 1983. She ranked in the top 10 of the 100 m world rankings for twe ...
, and Ingrid Auerswald ran a time of 41.37 seconds, which stood as the world record until 2012. She is the 1987 World champion at both 100 metres and 200 metres.


Biography

Moller was born in
Stralsund Stralsund (; Swedish language, Swedish: ''Strålsund''), officially the Hanseatic League, Hanseatic City of Stralsund (German language, German: ''Hansestadt Stralsund''), is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German federal state of Mecklen ...
, Bezirk Rostock (present-day
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; ), also known by its Anglicisation, anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a Federated state, state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's States of Germany, sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpom ...
). During her career she often stood in the shadows of Göhr,
Marita Koch Marita Koch (later Meier-Koch; born 18 February 1957) is a German former Sprint (running), sprint track and field athlete. During her career she set 16 List of world records in athletics, world records in outdoor sprints as well as 14 world re ...
, and Heike Drechsler. Only in 1987, while still using her maiden name Gladisch, did she come into her own: at the track and field world championship of 1987 she won two titles – in the
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sprint and the
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sprint, as well as second place with the 4 × 100 m relay team. With these results she was chosen as the East German sportswoman of the year. Möller's 200 m final performance at Rome in 1987 was exceptionally fast, she stopped the clock at 21.74 seconds. She had won the race by several meters and defeated a world class field including Florence Griffith and
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. Her time of 21.74 seconds was only just outside the then world record of 21.71 held by Marita Koch and Heike Drechsler. At the
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in
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she won the
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as a member of the East German 4 × 100 m relay team (she had at that time taken the name Möller). In 1992 she was implicated with Katrin Krabbe and Grit Breuer in a doping scandal, but was later cleared by the International Athletic Federation (
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). Shortly before the
1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics (, ), officially the Games of the XXV Olympiad (, ) and officially branded as Barcelona '92, were an international multi-sport event held from 25 July to 9 August 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Beginning in 1994 ...
she quit her athletic career and began to study history in
Rostock Rostock (; Polabian language, Polabian: ''Roztoc''), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (), is the largest city in the German States of Germany, state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the sta ...
. She worked as a history and sports teacher. She has a daughter. Möller represented the Empor Rostock sport club and trained under Wolfgang Meier (Marita Koch's coach and now husband). While she was actively competing, she was 1.63 metres tall and weighed 57 kilograms.


Achievements


Other results

*1981 Junior European champion in the 4 × 100 m relay (43.77 seconds) *1985 European Cup: winner in the 4 × 100 m relay *1987 European Cup winner in the 200 m and 4 × 100 m relay


See also

* German all-time top lists – 100 metres * German all-time top lists – 200 metres


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Moller, Silke 1964 births Living people Sportspeople from Stralsund Sportspeople from Bezirk Rostock East German female sprinters Athletes from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Olympic athletes for East Germany Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for East Germany World Athletics Championships medalists World Athletics Indoor Championships winners European Athletics Championships medalists Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field) Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver World Athletics Championships winners Olympic female sprinters SC Empor Rostock athletes Competitors at the 1984 Friendship Games East German Athletics Championships winners