Career
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.
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.