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Two-time German Olympic javelin champion Ruth Fuchs has died at the age of 76. The German Athletics Association reports this, with reference to its private environment.
Fuchs was the dominant javelin thrower in the world in the 1970s. The athlete won gold for the GDR at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and four years later in Montreal. Before retiring in 1980, she set six world records and was the first woman to throw a javelin over 60 meters. In 1994 she openly admitted to having used doping.
At that time, Fuchs had already started a career as a politician. In 1990 she entered the GDR parliament for the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) at the last Volkskammer elections and was the first Olympic champion in the German Bundestag. She was a member of parliament there until 2002 and again for the left in the Thuringian state parliament from 2004 to 2009. (SDA)
Source : Blick
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