Katrin Dörre-Heinig

Katrin Dörre-Heinig, born Katrin Dörre in Leipzig on 6 October 1961, is a German former long-distance runner who competed mainly in the marathon. She won Olympic bronze in the marathon for East Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, then ran for the reunified Germany at the 1992 and 1996 Games, finishing fourth in Atlanta. She also took bronze at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics. Across a long career she won 24 of her 45 marathons, including the Tokyo, Berlin and London races, with three straight London victories from 1992 to 1994 and a personal best of 2:24:35 set in Hamburg in 1999. After retiring she became a coach and later the German national marathon coach.