Career
She set the world record for the javelin six times during the 1970s. This ranks her seventh among German old-type-javelin throwers, behind Petra Felke (who held the world record), Antje Kempe, Silke Renk, Beate Koch, Karen Forkel and Tanja Damaske. Ruth Fuchs has admitted using steroids during her career, as part of the official East German sports programme.
Since her retirement from public life Fuchs has lived in Bucha, Saale-Holzland, in Thuringia, Germany.