Dörte Thümmler

Dörte Thümmler
Dörte Thümmler
	Thümmler in 1988
Personal information
Born	29 October 1971 (age 53); East Berlin, East Germany
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	East Germany
Olympic Games
World Championships
European Championships

Dörte Thümmler (born 29 October 1971) is a German former gymnast. She competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin / Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo, and competed for East Germany. She won many international competitions.^[1]^[2] In 1987, she was World Champion on the uneven bars (tied with Daniela Silivaș).

Thümmler's career was ended at the age of 16 from back pain.^[3] She worked as a restaurant clerk, but had to retire at age 38 due to ill health, in part caused by the effects of forced state-sponsored doping.^[3]^[4] Her stepfather, Manfred Thümmler, was head of sports medicine at SC Dynamo Berlin and a defendant in a 1999 doping trial, though his charges were dropped.^[3]

Competitive history

Year	Event	Team	AA	VT	UB	BB	FX
Junior
1985	Junior Friendship Tournament		48
1986	Cottbus International
	Junior European Championships		16
	Junior Friendship Tournament	4	9	6	6
	Jr. GDR-USSR Dual Meet		5			6
Senior
1987	Chunichi Cup					5
	Cottbus International		7				5
	DTV Cup
	European Championships		15
	GDR Championships		6
	HOL-HUN-GDR Meet
	Tokyo Cup						4
	World Championships		6				5
1988	Cottbus International		6
	GDR Championships			5
	Olympic Games		7		4		8

^[5]

References

^ Kunstturnen – Olympische Spiele 1980–1988
^ Thümmler
^ ^a ^b ^c Kuban, Caroline (25 November 2018). "Wenn ein Staat das Leben seiner Sportler auf Spiel setzt" [When a state puts the lives of its athletes at risk]. Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). Retrieved 21 January 2024.
^ Ahrens, Peter (25 April 2018). "DDR-Dopingopfer beklagen psychische Schädigungen" [GDR doping victims complain of psychological damage]. DER SPIEGEL (in German). Retrieved 21 January 2024.
^ "Dorte Thümmler (GDR)". Gymn Forum. 25 August 2007. Retrieved 29 July 2022.