Ines Geipel

Ines Geipel, born in 1960 in Dresden in the then East Germany, is a German academic and former athlete. She was a competitive athlete there before escaping to the West in 1989, after which she was expelled from the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, of which she had been a member. As an athlete she was a victim of doping in East Germany, and from 2013 to 2018 she was president of the group Help for Victims of Doping. She was a co-plaintiff in the 2000 trial of Manfred Ewald and Manfred Hoeppner. She is also a professor of German versification in Berlin.