Katharina Bullin

Katharina Bullin, born on 2 March 1959, is a former volleyball player who competed for East Germany. She was a member of the East German women's volleyball team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, where the team won the silver medal after losing to the Soviet Union in both the preliminary round and the final, each time by three sets to one. Earlier she had won silver medals with teams at the European Championships of 1977 and 1979. At club level she played for SC Dynamo Berlin, which won East German titles in 1975, 1978 and 1979 and the European Cup Winners Cup in 1978. Olympedia records that she was given anabolic steroids and other drugs without her knowledge, was dropped from the national team after the 1980 Games, and later sought compensation; a 2005 documentary film told her story.