Möller, Zilke

Zilke Möller (nee Gladish, kind. June 20, 1964, Stralsund , Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , GDR ) - East German athlete , sprinter , champion of the 1988 Olympic Games in relay, two-time world champion in 1987 in 100 and 200 meters.

Zilke Möller
Zilke Möller
general information
Full name	Silke möller
Date and place of birth	June 20, 1964 ( 1964-06-20 ) (55 years old) Stralsund , Rostock County, East Germany (now: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , Germany )
Citizenship	GDR Germany
Growth	163 cm
Weight
Club	SC Empor Rostock
Trainers	Wolfgang Meier
IAAF
Personal records
100 m	10.86 (1987)
200 m	21.74 (1987)
International medals
Olympic Games Silver Seoul 1988 4x100 m World Championships Gold Helsinki 1983 4x100 m relay Gold Rome 1987 100 m Gold Rome 1987 200 m Silver Rome 1987 4x100 m relay

On October 6, 1985, in Canberra, as part of the GDR national team ( Sabine Rieger , Marlies Gör , Ingrid Auerswald ), set a world record in the relay 4x400 m (41.37 s), which lasted until 2012.

In the early years of her sports career, Zilke Möller was in the shadow of her friends on the command of Marlies Göhr , Marita Koch , Heike Drexler . Only in 1987, becoming a two-time world champion, she, then still under the maiden name Gladisch, became one of the strongest women sprinters in East Germany and was named the athlete of the year in the GDR. In 1988, at the Olympic Games in Seoul, already under the name Möller, she won a silver medal in the relay 4x100 meters.

In 1992, she, along with other former GDR athletes, Catherine Krabbe and Grit Broer she was involved in a doping scandal, but later the IAAF dropped all charges against her.

Shortly after the 1992 Olympics, she left sports, studied history in Rostock , and then worked as a teacher of history and physical education. Has a daughter, Christine.