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	Marita Koch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marita Koch (born February 18, 1957 in Wismar, East Germany) was a sprint athlete.
		As a result, Marita Koch became one of the most successful runners over 50 and 60 metres where she set many records between 1980 and 1985.
		Koch's achievements, along with the extraordinary performances many other East German female athletes, aroused considerable suspicion at the time that they were achieved with the aid of anabolic steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs, which were and remain illegal but were not detectable at the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marita_Koch (517 words)

	Philip Hersh - Series on Athletics in the GDR
		Koch's time, from 1977 through 1985, was the golden age of East Germany's often ruthless system of producing top athletes whose success was intended to manifest the righteousness of communism.
		Koch has followed media coverage of the doping trials, in which the former country's top doping official, Manfred Ewald, recently was given a 22-month suspended sentence for systematic doping of East German athletes.
		Koch had started to study medicine and was in her fourth year when a doctor advised her in the middle of 1989 that the stress of going to school and raising an infant was beginning to affect her heart.
	www.runnersweb.com /running/philip_hersh4.html (1133 words)

	Koch Marita - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Koch, Marita (1957-), German sprint athlete, holder of numerous titles in the 1980s.
		Born in Tasmania, Koch shot to early literary fame with two novels, The Boys in the Island (1958) and...
		Koch, Robert (1843-1910), German physician and founder of the science of bacteriology.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Koch_Marita.html (85 words)

	Marita Koch
		Marita Koch had a magnificent international athletics career, during which she set 11 individual and 5 relay world records.
		The rapidly improving Koch reduced her personal best a number of times in the early part of the 1977 season to 49.53sec, and narrowly defeated Szewinska in a 200m event at Nice.
		Koch sped away and at 300m had a lead of 3 metres over Szewinska, but then Szewinska started to slowly close the gap (see photo above), eventually catching and passing her younger opponent to win in 49.52sec to Koch's 49.76sec.
	www.sporting-heroes.net /athletics-heroes/displayhero.asp?HeroID=371 (347 words)

	Marita Koch
		During 1981 the domination of the 400m, which Marita Koch had enjoyed since 1977, began to be challenged by Czech Jarmila Kratochvilova.
		Koch missed most of the season through injury, although she did win the 400m and anchor the East German 4 x 400m relay team to victory a the European Cup shortly after returning to competition in August.
		Koch returned to her best in 1982, winning the 200 metres at the East German national championships in 21.76sec, the second fastest time in history behind her 21.71sec world record.
	www.sporting-heroes.net /athletics-heroes/displayhero.asp?HeroID=373 (327 words)

	New Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Marita Koch's 47.60 400 metres falls within that category.
		Koch, born in 1957 and a product of the immensely successful although controversial GDR sports machine, ranks as the greatest ever all-round sprinter.
		She possessed a rocket start which enabled her to set world indoor records at 50 and 60m, she became the second fastest 100m runner in history when she clocked 10.83 and accumulated four world records at 200m (her best was 21.71 in 1979 and 1984) and seven at 400m.
	www2.iaaf.org /athletes/legends/Koch.html (204 words)

	Marita Koch
		At Canberra, Koch was expected to win the 200m, which she did easily in a time of 21.90sec, but on the strength of Vlaykina's season to date, the 400m was not considered a pushover for Koch.
		In the final, Koch produced one of the greatest athletics feats in history, speeding through 200m in 22.4sec and finishing in an incredible 47.60sec.
		Koch also anchored East Germany to victory in the 4 x 400m relay final, the fourth time that she had done so in four successive World Cups.
	www.sporting-heroes.net /athletics-heroes/displayhero.asp?HeroID=375 (331 words)

	Track & Field News :: View topic - What are Jarmila and Marita up to today?
		She and Marita Koch had cordial not to say friendly relationships, they used to mail each other for the new year until one lost the address of the other.
		One thing is sure for me, Marita Koch was near to reach her best potential at 400 with 47.60, while Kratochvílová could have run 1sec faster than she did at 800m.
		Maybe she did the mistake to wait for Koch who was in the lane behind her, but in the last straight it was too late, as Koch did a great last bend.
	mb.trackandfieldnews.com /discussion/viewtopic.php?t=3378 (3690 words)

	CNNSI.com - Athletics - French sprinter Perec changes coaches - Friday February 04, 2000 10:17 AM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Posted: Friday February 04, 2000 10:17 AM PARIS (Reuters) -- French sprinter Marie-Jo Perec, a long-time critic of east European drug use, has left John Smith to be coached by Marita Koch's husband, Wolfgang Meier, in a bid to win a third successive Olympic 400 meter title.
		Meier, former trainer of world record holder Koch, has accepted Perec's challenge to come out of retirement and prepare her for this year's Sydney Games, L'Equipe said on Friday.
		Koch, Olympic 400 meter champion in 1980, set the world record of 47.60 seconds in 1985.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /athletics/news/2000/02/04/perec_coach (505 words)

	SPORTS NEWS BRIEFS; Koch Sets Mark For 400 Meters - New York Times
		Marita Koch of East Germany shattered the 400-meter record with a clocking of 47.60 seconds today, and her country's 400-meter relay team set a world record in the World Cup track and field meet.
		Miss Kratochvilova, in the final outdoor appearance of her career, finished a badly beaten fifth today and was the first to congratulate the winner.
		Miss Koch's effort was the first individual world record in World Cup competition.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9B01E5DF1039F934A35753C1A963948260 (174 words)

	Marita Koch \| THG Lexikon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Den Angaben zur Folge bekam Marita Koch von 1981 bis 1984 hohe Dosen Oral-Turinabol.
		Marita Koch hatte bei einer Größe von 1,71 m ein Wettkampfgewicht von 61 kg.
		Marita Koch \| 1980: Maxi Gnauck \| 1981: Ute Geweniger \| 1982/83: Marita Koch \| 1984: Katarina Witt \| 1985: Marita Koch \| 1986: Heike Drechsler \| 1987: Silke Möller \| 1988/89: Kristin Otto
	www.tomshardware.de /lexikon/Marita_Koch (362 words)

	Heroic women and some tiny men (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The two best performances made by women so far are the 400 m world record by Marita Koch in mid 1980's and the bunch of stunning runs by Flo-Jo (Florence Griffith-Joyner) in the late 1980's.
		Although sex-segregation fanatics love to dismiss Flo-Jo's and Marita's results as un-feminine and thus by necessity produced by the help of illegal means, the truth is that there were much more powerful and suspicious looking candidates among the competitors, and no such evidence has ever been presented against Flo-Jo and Marita.
		In the case of Marita Koch she has been treated unfairly just because she happened to live in DDR.
	klevius.info /flo-jo.html?1077361221693 (638 words)

	Athletics: Under the microscope Independent on Sunday, The - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Marita Koch's 400m time, 47.60sec, has been untouchable in the world record books for 20 years, since the World Cup meeting in Canberra in October 1985.
		They also unearthed a letter from Koch to Jenapharm, complaining that Wckel was given stronger doses of steroids because her uncle was president of the pharmaceutical company.
		Like Koch, Wckel is not as keen as Geipel to go on the record.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20051023/ai_n15719195 (907 words)

	✓ Marita_Koch - Versorgungszentrum-Chemnitz.de - Versorgungszentrumchemnitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Marita Koch war auch als Olympiateilnehmerin fÃ¼r die Olympischen Sommerspiele 1988 in Seoul vorgesehen, sie trat jedoch vorher zurÃ¼ck.
		Marita Koch war 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983 und 1985 DDR-Sportlerin des Jahres.
		Koch, Marita Koch, Marita Koch, Marita Koch, Marita Koch, Marita Koch, Marita
	versorgungszentrum-chemnitz.de /index.php/Marita_Koch (2512 words)

	SVZ online: Wiedererkannt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Ein wenig Aufregung ist schon dabei, als ich das Sportgeschäft von Marita Koch-Meier in der Rostocker Faulen Grube, gleich neben der Kröpeliner Straße, betrete.
		"Ach was", gesteht Marita Koch ein, "wenn ich an 47 gedacht habe, dann höchstens an 4711!" Gewußt hat es wohl aber Verbandstrainer Dr. Edwin Tepper: Der stand plötzlich vor Marita, umarmte sie und beteuerte, er hätte sowie nie an ihr gezweifelt...
		Für 15 Jahre ging Marita Koch den Bund mit der Tartanbahn ein.
	www.svz.de /sport/wiedererkannt/koch.html (1655 words)

	Sports Column: Perec Quietly Takes on Double Mission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The women's world record in the 400, 47.60 by Marita Koch of Germany in 1985, was set at a time when athletes from the Eastern bloc nations were suspected of, and in some cases proven, to use performance-enhancing drugs.
		In the intervening years, as she has gained strength and confidence, Perec no longer regards Koch's mark as beyond reach.
		This is part of an evolution that began in Guadeloupe, where she was raised by her grandmother.
	www.nytimes.com /specials/olympics/0801/oly-run-rhoden-column.html (685 words)

	Koch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles G. Koch - Billionaire, heir and CEO of Koch Industries and co-founder of the free-market Cato Institute.
		David H. Koch - Billionaire, 1980 Libertarian Party Vice-Presidential candidate, heir to Koch Industries.
		Fred C. Koch - Founder of Koch Industries, and supporter of the John Birch Society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Koch (369 words)

	Meier-Koch, Marita: Porträt \| MDR.DE
		Aus der sportlichen Zusammenarbeit entwickelte sich auch eine persönliche Beziehung: Marita Koch heiratete ihn wenige Jahre später.
		Mit 15 Jahren lief sie die 400 m in 60,3 Sekunden, mit 18 Jahren in 51,60 und mit 19 Jahren in 50,19 Sekunden.
		August 1978 lief Marita Meier-Koch in Rostock die 400 m in 49,02 Sekunden und wurde dann in Prag Europameisterin mit der Weltrekordzeit von 48,94 Sekunden.
	www.mdr.de /riverboat/963231.html (399 words)

	BBC Sport Academy
		Getting the balance between a quick start and saving your legs for a storming sprint finish is not always easy.
		Generations of runners have tried and failed in their attempt to beat Koch's amazing run at the 1985 IAAF World Cup in Australia.
		A brilliantly versatile sprinter with a rocket start, she lost just twice during eight years of competition in the 400m, which included an Olympic gold at the 1980 Moscow Games.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sportacademy/bsp/hi/athletics/rules/track/html/400.stm (279 words)

	Large dams and reservoirs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		So far, large dams have forced up to eighty million people to vacate their homes and land.
		Dams contribute to large-scale biodiversity loss, damage to riverbeds and floodplains, "resulting in irreversible loss of species and ecosystems", as Marita Koch-Weser, IUCN's Director General, said yesterday in London.
		The recommendations include that no dam should be built without the agreement of affected people, participatory assessments of the needs that will be met, and proper evaluations of alternatives to the dams.
	www.climatenetwork.org /eco/cops/cop6/6.1100.cdm.html (417 words)

	ESPN Classic - FloJo Made Speed Fashionable
		On the way to the gold medal, she broke the Olympic mark three times in four races -- which gave her the seven fastest 100-meter times in history.
		She blistered Marita Koch's world record of 21.71 seconds by running a 21.56 in the semifinals of the 200 meters.
		Then, less than two hours later, she bettered that mark with an amazing 21.34 in capturing her second gold medal.
	www.espn.go.com /classic/biography/s/Griffith_Joyner_Florence.html (1334 words)

	Australian Sports Commission - AIS Tours
		While time does not permit visits to Canberra Stadium and the athletics track, you will learn that Canberra Stadium was originally built as an athletics track for the 1985 International Association of Athletics Federations World Cup.
		At this meeting, Marita Koch, a female East German 400m runner, set a world record which still stands today.
		The athletics track was originally the warm-up track, with the main track at Canberra Stadium.
	www.ausport.gov.au /tours/virtual_tour.asp (915 words)

	The Hindu : Beenamol breaks Usha's 400m record
		Competing in an international meet at Kiev, Ukraine, on June 18, Beenamol won one of the two 400m races in 51.21 seconds, clipping 0.40 secs off Usha's National mark set in Canberra, Australia, in 1985.
		That mark, in the World Cup, had come in a race won in the existing world record time of 47.60s by the GDR's Marita Koch.
		This is the first National mark to fall from Usha's grasp and this was always considered the toughest of the lot.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/06/24/stories/07240112.htm (909 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta
		She then won 27 successive long jump competitions before she was injured at the 1987 Rome world championships.
		In the previous year, Drechsler had emerged as a world class sprinter, equalling compatriot Marita Koch’s world 200m record.
		She also set a world junior heptathlon record in 1981.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040709/asp/sports/story_3473106.asp (356 words)

	SCC-EVENTS.com > NEWS > Article
		Roberto L. Quercetani, the Italian sport historian, athletics journalist, and statistician, has been one of the most recognised authors of numerous track and field reference books for decades.
		Lamine Diack, the president of the IAAF, wrote a foreword.
		Lon Myers is on the cover of the book at his first 440-yard race in Stamford Bridge, London, in 1881 with a time of 49 4/5 — with images of Marita Koch and Michael Johnson blended over as the 400m heroes of the modern age.
	www.scc-events.com /news/news003819.en.html (1290 words)

	rediff.com: Phantom timings, fantasy distances
		Take Marita Koch, the East German whose 400m record of 47.60 still stands, 15 years after it was set.
		Even Marie Jose Perec, a long-legged runner of freakish brilliance never came close to the record, at one point claiming to have held the world record saying that Koch's record was insurmountable, illegally obtained.
		(Of course, it's a delicious irony that this year Perec turned to Koch for coaching advice).
	www.rediff.com /sports/2000/oct/06rohit.htm (1071 words)

	American Track and Field -- Regional News Article
		After winning the 100m gold medal in a wind-aided 10.54 seconds, Griffith Joyner brought her full attention to the 200 meters.
		In the semifinals, Flo-Jo offered a preview of what was to come in setting a new world record of 21.56 seconds, shattering the previous standard of 21.71 established by Marita Koch and equaled by Heike Drechsler, both of East Germany.
		A little less than two hours later, Griffith Joyner ran in the 200m final, her eighth race in five days.
	www.american-trackandfield.com /news/topmomentFlojo.html (405 words)

	USATF - Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		She set an Olympic record when she ran 10.97 to win the 100m at the 1984 Games She was a two-time world record holder in the 100 meters, running 10.79 at Colorado Springs in 1983 and surpassing that record when she ran 10.76 in Zurich in 1984.
		Among her greatest achievements was her double victory at the 1979 World Cup when she defeated East Germany's dominant sprinters, beating Marlies Gohr in the 100m and world-record holder Marita Koch in the 200m.
		She repeated her double sprint victories in the 1981 World Cup.
	www.usatf.org /HallOfFame/TF/showBio.asp?HOFIDs=7 (208 words)

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