Background
When her father, Henner Misersky, who worked as a trainer of the East-German team until 1985, refused to give steroid substances to his daughter and other team members, he was fired.
When her father, Henner Misersky, who worked as a trainer of the East-German team until 1985, refused to give steroid substances to his daughter and other team members, he was fired.
Antje Misersky was then put under pressure and had to end her career in the German Democratic Republic. In 1989, she started biathlon. In 2000, she became an American citizen. Foreign her refusal to take part in the systematic doping in the German Democratic Republic, Antje Harvey received the Heidi-Krieger-Medal in 1995, in Berlin.
The Heidi-Krieger-Medal is a prize of the association Doping-Opfer-Hilfe from Germany.
She began her career as cross country skier and was a member of the East German team that won the 4 × 5 km bronze medal at the 1985 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld. At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, she won the gold medal in 15 km individual and two silvers in the 7.5 km sprint and in the 3 × 7.5 km. At the 1994 Winter Olympics at Lillehammer she won another relay silver medal (4 × 75 km). Harvey also won two medals in the relay at the World Championships (1995: gold, 1991: bronze).
