Silke Möller

Silke Möller

Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  East Germany
Olympic Games
	1988 Seoul	4 × 100 m relay
World Championships
	1983 Helsinki	4 × 100 m relay
	1987 Rome	100 m
	1987 Rome	200 m
	1987 Rome	4 × 100 m relay

Silke Möller (née Gladisch, born 20 June 1964) is a German athlete, who in the 1980s competed for East Germany as one of the best female sprinters in the world. She was a member of the East German quartet that broke the world record in the 4 × 100 m relay at the World cup in Canberra on 6 October 1985. She and teammates Sabine Rieger, Marlies Göhr, and Ingrid Auerswald ran a time of 41.37 seconds, which stood as the world record until 2012. She is the 1987 World champion at both 100 metres and 200 metres.

Moller was born in Stralsund, Bezirk Rostock (present-day Mecklenburg-Vorpommern). During her career she often stood in the shadows of Göhr, Marita Koch, and Heike Drechsler. Only in 1987, while still using her maiden name Gladisch, did she come into her own: at the track and field world championship of 1987 she won two titles – in the 100 m sprint and the 200 m sprint, as well as second place with the 4 × 100 m relay team. With these results she was chosen as the East German sportswoman of the year.

Möller's 200m final performance at Rome in 1987 was exceptionally fast, she stopped the clock at 21.74 seconds. She had won the race by several meters and defeated a world class field including Florence Griffith and Merlene Ottey. Her time of 21.74 seconds was only just outside the then world record of 21.71 held by Marita Koch and Heike Drechsler.

At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul she won the silver medal as a member of the East German 4 × 100 m relay team (she had at that time taken the name Möller).

In 1992 she was implicated with Katrin Krabbe and Grit Breuer in a doping scandal, but was later cleared by the International Athletic Federation (IAAF). Shortly before the 1992 Summer Olympics she quit her athletic career and began to study history in Rostock. She worked as a history and sports teacher. She has a daughter.

Möller represented the Empor Rostock sport club and trained under Wolfgang Meier (Marita Koch's coach and now husband). While she was actively competing, she was 1.63 metres tall and weighed 57 kilograms.

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  East Germany
1983	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	semifinal	100 m	11.30
			1st	4 × 100 m	41.76
1984	Friendship Games	Prague, Czechoslovakia	4th	100 m	11.10
1985	World Indoor Games	Paris, France	1st	60 m	7.20
	European Indoor Indoor Championships	Piraeus, Greece	4th	60 m	7.24
	World Cup	Canberra, Australia	1st	4 × 100 m	41.37
1986	European Indoor Championships	Madrid, Spain	3rd	60 m	7.14
	European Championships	Stuttgart, West Germany	4th	100 m	11.09
			3rd	200 m	22.49
			1st	4 × 100 m	41.84
1987	World Championships	Rome, Italy	1st	100 m	10.90
			1st	200 m	21.74
			2nd	4 × 100 m	41.95
1988	European Indoor Championships	Budapest, Hungary	2nd	60 m	7.05
	Olympic Games	Seoul, South Korea	semifinal	100 m	11.12
			5th	200 m	22.09
			2nd	4 × 100 m	42.09
1989	World Cup	Barcelona, Spain	3rd	100 m	11.24
			1st	200 m	22.46
			1st	4 × 100 m	42.21
1990	European Championships	Split, Yugoslavia	2nd	100 m	11.10
			1st	4 × 100 m	41.68

• 1981 Junior European champion in the 4 × 100 m relay (43.77 seconds)
• 1985 European Cup: winner in the 4 × 100 m relay
• 1987 European Cup winner in the 200 m and 4 × 100 m relay

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Silke Möller.

• German all-time top lists – 100 metres
• German all-time top lists – 200 metres

• Silke Möller at World Athletics

Awards
Preceded by Heike Drechsler	East German Sportswoman of the Year 1987	Succeeded by Kristin Otto
Sporting positions
Preceded by Heike Drechsler	Women's 200m Best Year Performance 1987	Succeeded by Florence Griffith-Joyner