Hannelore Anke

Hannelore Anke
	Hannelore Anke in 1975
Personal information
Nationality	East German
Born	8 December 1957 (age 66); Schlema, Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany
Height	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight	52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Breaststroke
Club	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt
Medal record
Representing East Germany
Olympic Games
World Championships

Hannelore Anke (later Hofmann; born 8 December 1957) is a retired German swimmer who competed for East Germany in the 1970s.

Personal life

Anke was born in 1957 in Bad Schlema. Her mother had a senior position in a textile manufacturing plant and her father was a decorative painter. The sixth of ultimately seven children, she was the first god-child of Wilhelm Pieck, who at the time of her birth was president of East Germany.^[1]

Sports career

Anke became junior-champion at the 1971 Junior European Swimming Championships.^[2] She had her best achievements in the 100 m breaststroke and 4 × 100 m medley relay. In these two events she won gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics^[3] and 1975 World Aquatics Championships, and set two world records. In 1975, she also won a world title in the 100 m breaststroke. She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1990.^[4]^[5]

Doping

Officials from the East German team have later admitted that they administered performance-enhancing drugs to Anke during her career.^[3]^[5]^[6]^[7]

Notes

^ Kluge 2004, pp. 13, 99.
^ Kluge 2004, p. 13.
^ ^a ^b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Hannelore Anke". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
^ "ISHOF 1990 Honorees". ISHOF.org. International Swimming Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 9 February 2010. Retrieved 3 May 2008.
^ ^a ^b "Hannelore Anke (GDR) – 1990 Honor Swimmer". ISHOF.org. International Swimming Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 3 May 2008.
^ "The East German Doping Machine". ISHOF.org. International Swimming Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 24 April 2008. Retrieved 3 May 2008.
^ "OLYMPICS; U.S. May Seek to Change Medals Won by East Germans". The New York Times. 20 October 1998. Retrieved 3 May 2008.

References

Kluge, Volker (2004). Das große Lexikon der DDR-Sportler: Die 1000 erfolgreichsten und populärsten Sportlerinnen und Sportler aus der DDR, ihre Erfolge, Medaillen und Biographien [The big lexicon of the GDR athletes: The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes, medals and biographies.] (in German) (2 ed.). Berlin: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag. ISBN 3-89602-538-4.