Education
She started out as a 400 m hurdler in Schwerin, and finished fourth at the 1981 European Junior Championships.
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She started out as a 400 m hurdler in Schwerin, and finished fourth at the 1981 European Junior Championships.
The two repeated their one-two finish at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Wodars completed her set of titles by also winning the 1990 European Championships in Split, her last title. She retired after the Barcelona Olympics, and currently works as a physiotherapist.
Now competing under the name of Wodars, she won her first national title in 1986, and placed second at the European Championships in Stuttgart, behind Nadezhda Olizarenko of the Soviet Union. In 1987, she lost seven out of eight times to Wachtel, but the race she won was the World Championships in Rome, defeating her in a close finish.
