Silvia Madetzky (born 24 June 1962) is a German former

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disk (mathematics), disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an classical antiqui ...

er who competed for

East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

. Her personal best for the event is , which ranks her within the all-time top thirty for the event, as of 2016. Despite this, her highest ever seasonal world ranking was only seventh, achieved in 1987. Madetzky was a silver medallist in the discus at the

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, forming an East German 1–2 with

Irina Meszynski Irina Meszynski (born 24 March 1962 in Berlin) is a retired East German discus thrower. On 17 August 1984 Meszynski set a world record in women's discus throw at boycott inspired Friendship Games of 73.36 meters. Her record lasted barely a w ...

. Her first an only major senior selection was for the

1982 European Athletics Championships The 13th European Athletics Championships were held from 6 September to 12 September 1982 at the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald. Men's results Compl ...

, where she finished in fifth place with a throw of . This throw would have brought her at least the silver medal at all other previous editions of the championships, reflecting this sudden rise in standards. A member of the

Chemie Halle Hallescher FC, sometimes still called by its former popular name Chemie Halle, is a German association football club based in Halle an der Saale, Saxony-Anhalt. The club currently plays in the 3. Liga, the third highest level in the German footb ...

sports club during her career, she twice reached the national podium, coming third at the East German Athletics Championships in 1985 and 1988. The subsequent release of state documents showed Madetzky was given an annual amount of 2390 mg of

Oral-Turinabol Chlorodehydromethyltestosterone (CDMT; brand name Oral Turinabol), also known as 4-chloro-17β-hydroxy17α-methylandrosta-1,4-dien-3-one, is an anabolic–androgenic steroid (AAS). It is the 4-chloro-substituted derivative of metandienone (dehy ...

(a banned

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) during her career under coach Gerhard Böttcher. This was during a period where there was widespread, state-sponsored

doping in East Germany The government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) conducted a decades long program of coercive administration and distribution of performance-enhancing drugs, initially testosterone, later mainly anabolic drugs to its elite athletes. The ai ...

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