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
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
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.^[1]