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German sprinter
Grit Breuer (later Springstein , born 16 February 1972 in
Röbel ,
Bezirk Neubrandenburg ) is a German former athlete, who competed in the women's
200 metres ,
400 metres ,
4×100 m relay , and
4×400 m relay events.
She has received injuries as a result of her sports competition, including a slipped disk in her back and a ligament in her knee. She has also been involved in drugs-related controversy. In 1992 she received a two-year ban from the sport after admitting she had taken
clenbuterol . In 2004, she was accused of skipping a drug test in
South Africa , but she was cleared on a technicality. She has won two Olympic bronze medals in the 4 × 400 metres relay. Her first was in 1988 competing for East Germany, when she ran in the heats but not the final and the second was in 1996.
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Sports accomplishments
Year
Competition
Venue
Position
Event
Notes
Representing
East Germany
1988
World Junior Championships
Sudbury, Canada
1st
400 m
51.24
1st
4 × 100 m relay
43.48
1st
4 × 400 m relay
3:28.39
Olympic Games
Seoul
3rd
4 × 400 m relay
N/A
[n 1]
1989
World Cup
Barcelona, Spain
2nd
400 m
50.67
2nd
4 × 400 m relay
3:23.97
1990
European Championships
Split , Yugoslavia
1st
400 m
49.50
1st
4 × 400 m relay
3:21.02
Representing
Germany
1991
World Indoor Championships
Seville , Spain
3rd
200 m
22.58
1st
4 × 400 m relay
3:27.22
World Championships
Tokyo , Japan
2nd
400 m
49.42
3rd
4×100 m relay
42.33
3rd
4×400 m relay
3:21.25
1996
European Indoor Championships
Stockholm , Sweden
1st
400 m
50.89
Olympic Games
Atlanta , United States
3rd
4×400 m relay
3:21.14
1997
World Indoor Championships
Paris , France
3rd
4×400 m relay
3:28.39
World Championships
Athens , Greece
1st
4×400 m relay
3:20.92
1998
European Indoor Championships
Valencia, Spain
1st
400 m
50.45
European Championships
Budapest , Hungary
1st
400 m
49.93
World Cup
Johannesburg, South Africa
2nd
400 m
49.86
1st
4 × 400 m relay
3:24.26
1999
World Indoor Championships
Maebashi , Japan
1st
400 m
50.80
World Championships
Seville, Spain
3rd
4×400 m relay
3:22.43
2004
Summer Olympics
Athens , Greece
heats
4×400 m relay
3:27.75
^ She ran the heats, but not the finals
See also
References
External links
1983 :
Kerstin Walther ,
Sabine Busch ,
Marita Koch ,
Dagmar Rübsam ,
Undine Bremer ,
Ellen Fiedler (GDR)
1987 :
Dagmar Neubauer ,
Kirsten Emmelmann ,
Petra Müller ,
Sabine Busch ,
Cornelia Ullrich (GDR)
1991 :
Tatyana Ledovskaya ,
Lyudmyla Dzhyhalova ,
Olga Nazarova ,
Olha Bryzhina ,
Anna Chuprina (URS)
1993 :
Gwen Torrence ,
Maicel Malone-Wallace ,
Natasha Kaiser ,
Jearl Miles ,
Terri Dendy ,
Michelle Collins (USA)
1995 :
Kim Graham ,
Rochelle Stevens ,
Camara Jones ,
Jearl Miles ,
Nicole Green (USA)
1997 :
Anke Feller ,
Uta Rohländer ,
Anja Rücker ,
Grit Breuer (GER)
1999 :
Tatyana Chebykina ,
Svetlana Goncharenko ,
Olga Kotlyarova ,
Natalya Nazarova ,
Natalya Sharova ,
Yekaterina Bakhvalova (RUS)
2001 :
Sandie Richards ,
Catherine Scott-Pomales ,
Debbie-Ann Parris ,
Lorraine Fenton ,
Michelle Burgher ,
Deon Hemmings (JAM)
2003 :
Demetria Washington ,
Jearl Miles Clark ,
Me'Lisa Barber ,
Sanya Richards ,
DeeDee Trotter (USA)
2005 :
Yuliya Pechonkina ,
Olesya Krasnomovets ,
Natalya Antyukh ,
Svetlana Pospelova ,
Tatyana Firova ,
Olesya Zykina (RUS)
2007 :
DeeDee Trotter ,
Allyson Felix ,
Mary Wineberg ,
Sanya Richards ,
Monique Hennagan ,
Natasha Hastings (USA)
2009 :
Debbie Dunn ,
Allyson Felix ,
Lashinda Demus ,
Sanya Richards ,
Natasha Hastings ,
Jessica Beard (USA)
2011 :
Sanya Richards-Ross ,
Allyson Felix ,
Jessica Beard ,
Francena McCorory ,
Natasha Hastings ,
Keshia Baker (USA)
2013 :
Jessica Beard ,
Natasha Hastings ,
Ashley Spencer ,
Francena McCorory ,
Joanna Atkins (USA)
2015 :
Christine Day ,
Shericka Jackson ,
Stephenie Ann McPherson ,
Novlene Williams-Mills ,
Anastasia Le-Roy ,
Chrisann Gordon (JAM)
2017 :
Quanera Hayes ,
Allyson Felix ,
Shakima Wimbley ,
Phyllis Francis ,
Kendall Ellis ,
Natasha Hastings (USA)
2019 :
Phyllis Francis ,
Sydney McLaughlin ,
Dalilah Muhammad ,
Wadeline Jonathas ,
Jessica Beard ,
Allyson Felix ,
Kendall Ellis ,
Courtney Okolo (USA)
2022 :
Talitha Diggs ,
Abby Steiner ,
Britton Wilson ,
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone ,
Kaylin Whitney ,
Allyson Felix ,
Jaide Stepter Baynes (USA)
2023 :
Eveline Saalberg ,
Lieke Klaver ,
Cathelijn Peeters ,
Femke Bol ,
Lisanne de Witte (NED)
1991:
Germany (
Seuser ,
Schreiter ,
Hesselbarth ,
Breuer )
1993:
Jamaica (
Hemmings ,
Grant ,
Rattray-Williams ,
Richards )
1995:
Russia (
Chebykina ,
Ruzina ,
Kulikova ,
Goncharenko )
1997:
Russia (
Chebykina ,
Goncharenko ,
Kotlyarova ,
Alekseyeva )
1999:
Russia (
Chebykina ,
Goncharenko ,
Kotlyarova ,
Nazarova )
2001:
Russia (
Nosova ,
Zykina ,
Sotnikova ,
Kotlyarova )
2003:
Russia (
Antyukh ,
Pechonkina ,
Zykina ,
Nazarova )
2004:
Russia (
Krasnomovets ,
Kotlyarova ,
Levina ,
Nazarova )
2006:
Russia (
Levina ,
Nazarova ,
Krasnomovets ,
Antyukh )
2008:
Russia (
Gushchina ,
Levina ,
Nazarova ,
Zykina )
2010:
United States (
Dunn ,
Trotter ,
Hastings ,
Felix )
2012:
Great Britain (
Cox ,
Sanders ,
Ohuruogu ,
Shakes-Drayton )
2014:
United States (
Hastings ,
Atkins ,
McCorory ,
Tate ,
Hayes ,
Hargrove )
2016:
United States (
Hastings ,
Hayes ,
Okolo ,
Spencer )
2018:
United States (
Hayes ,
Moline ,
Wimbley ,
Okolo )
2022:
Jamaica (
Bromfield ,
Russell ,
McGregor ,
McPherson ,
James )
2024:
Netherlands (
Klaver ,
Peeters ,
De Witte ,
Bol ,
Van der Schoot ,
Saalberg )
1969 :
Great Britain (
Stirling ,
Lowe ,
Simpson ,
Board )
1971 :
East Germany (
Kühne ,
Lohse ,
Seidler ,
Zehrt )
1974 :
East Germany (
Rohde ,
Dietsch ,
Handt ,
Streidt )
1978 :
East Germany (
Marquardt ,
Krug ,
Brehmer ,
Koch )
1982 :
East Germany (
Siemon ,
Busch ,
Rübsam ,
Koch )
1986 :
East Germany (
Siemon ,
Busch ,
Müller ,
Koch )
1990 :
East Germany (
Derr ,
Hesselbarth ,
Müller ,
Breuer )
1994 :
France (
Landre ,
Elien ,
Dorsile ,
Pérec )
1998 :
Germany (
Feller ,
Rohländer ,
Rieger ,
Breuer )
2002 :
Germany (
Ekpo-Umoh ,
Rockmeier ,
Marx ,
Breuer )
2006 :
Russia (
Pospelova ,
Ivanova ,
Zaytseva ,
Veshkurova )
2010 :
Germany (
Lindenberg ,
Cremer ,
Kohlmann ,
Hoffmann )
2012 :
Ukraine (
Olishevska ,
Zemlyak ,
Pyhyda ,
Lohvynenko )
2014 :
France (
Gayot ,
Hurtis ,
Raharolahy ,
Gueï )
2016 :
Great Britain (
Diamond ,
Onuora ,
Doyle ,
Bundy-Davies )
2018 :
Poland (
Hołub-Kowalik ,
Baumgart-Witan ,
Wyciszkiewicz ,
Święty-Ersetic )
2022 :
Netherlands (
Saalberg ,
Klaver ,
Bol ,
de Witte )
1977: East Germany (
Popp ,
Krug ,
Brehmer ,
Koch )
1979: East Germany (
Kotte ,
Brehmer ,
Köhn ,
Koch )
1981: East Germany (
Rübsam ,
Steuk ,
Wöckel ,
Koch )
1985: East Germany (
Emmelmann ,
Busch ,
Neubauer ,
Koch )
1989: Americas (
Crooks ,
Davis ,
Jackson ,
Quirot )
1992: Americas (
Edeh ,
Crooks ,
Carabali ,
Restrepo )
1994: Great Btitain (
Smith ,
Keough ,
Neef ,
Gunnell )
1998: Germany (
Feller ,
Rohländer ,
Urbansky ,
Breuer )
2002: Americas (
Richards ,
Pernía ,
Amertil ,
Guevara )
2006: Americas (
S. Williams ,
Darling ,
Amertil ,
N. Williams )
2010: Americas (
Williams ,
Dunn ,
Wilson ,
Amertil )
2014: Americas (
Day ,
McCorory ,
McPherson ,
Williams-Mills )