Grit Breuer

Grit Breuer

Breuer at the East German Track and Field Athletics Championships in Neubrandenburg, July 1989
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  East Germany
Olympic Games
1988 Seoul 4 × 400 m relay
European Championships
1990 Split 400 metres
1990 Split 400 × 400 metres relay
Representing  Germany
Olympic Games
1996 Atlanta 4 × 400 m relay
World Championships
1997 Athens 4 × 400 m relay
1991 Tokyo 400 m
2001 Edmonton 4 × 400 m relay
1991 Tokyo 4 × 100 m relay
1991 Tokyo 4 × 400 m relay
1999 Seville 4 × 400 m relay
European Championships
1998 Budapest 400 metres
1998 Budapest 400 × 400 m relay
2002 Munich 400 × 400m relay
2002 Munich 400 metres
World Indoor Championships
1991 Seville 4 × 400 m relay
1999 Maebashi 400 m
1991 Seville 200 m
1997 Paris 4 × 400 m relay
2003 Birmingham 400 m

Grit Breuer (later Springstein, born 16 February 1972 in Röbel, Bezirk Neubrandenburg) is a German former athlete, who competed in the women's 200 metres, 400 metres, 4 × 100 m relay, and 4 × 400 m relay events.

She has received injuries as a result of her sports competition, including a slipped disk in her back and a ligament in her knee. She has also been involved in drugs-related controversy. In 1992 she received a two-year ban from the sport after admitting she had taken clenbuterol. In 2004, she was accused of skipping a drug test in South Africa, but she was cleared on a technicality. She has won two Olympic bronze medals in the 4 × 400 metres relay. Her first was in 1988 competing for East Germany, when she ran in the heats but not the final and the second was in 1996.