- Antje Harvey
Antje Harvey (born
May 10 ,1967 inMagdeburg , as Antje Misersky) is a former Germancross country skier and biathlete.She began her career as cross country skier and was a member of the East German team that won the 4 x 5 km bronze medal at the
1985 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships inSeefeld . When her father, Henner Misersky, who worked as a trainer of the East-German team til 1985 refused to give steroid substances to his daughter and other team members he was fired in 1985. Antje Misersky was set under pressure then and had to end her career in the GDR.Barbara Bürer, Nils Klawitter: [http://images.zeit.de/text/archiv/1998/13/doping.txt.19980319.xml "Doping macht vergeßlich"] Die Zeit, 13/1998 (German)]In 1989, she started with biathlon. At the
1992 Winter Olympics inAlbertville , she won the gold medal in 15 km individual and two silvers in the 7.5 km sprint and in the 3 x 7.5 km. At the1994 Winter Olympics atLillehammer she won another relay silver medal (4 x 7.5 km). Harvey also won two medal in the relay at the World Championships (1995: gold, 1991: bronze).In the spring of 1993 she married American biathlete Ian Harvey whom she had met a year earlier on a journey through the USA. In 1995 she retired from competitive sports and moved to
Utah where she lives with her daughters Hazel (*1996) and Pearl (*2001). In 2000 she became an American citizen.For her refusal to take part in the systematic doping in the GDR Antje Harvey received the
Heidi-Krieger-Medal in 1995 inBerlin . The Heidi-Krieger-Medal is a prize of the association Doping-Opfer-Hilfe from Germany.Friedhard Teuffel: [http://www.tagesspiegel.de/sport/;art272,2172110 "Auszeichnung für Dopingopfer'] Der Tagesspiegel, 22. Juli 2005 (German)] Grit Hartmann: [http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/2005/0721/sport/0064/index.html "Nicht um jeden Preis"] Berliner Zeitung, 21. Juli 2005 (German)]External links
* [http://www.biathlonworld.com/eng/dynamic/archiv_redirect.asp?page=data.biathlonworld.com/data/archives.aspx?IbuId= IBU Profile]
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* [http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/s/ski_nordisch/skilanglauf/hst/3.html Nordic World Ski Championship results] de iconReferences
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