European Indoor Athletics Championship: Four to follow
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The three teenagers in the Great Britain team - high jumpers Susan Jones and Ben Challenger and sprinter Dwain Chambers - were all babes yet to celebrate their first birthdays when the veteran shot- putter took the bronze medal in the 1979 Championships in Vienna. Now 40, the Croydon Harrier wins her 80th British vest here.
THERESIA KIESL
The top-ranked entrant for the women's 1500 metres, the Austrian competes under a family cloud. Her body-builder husband, Manfred, with whom she runs a gym in Linz, was last month charged with the possession of illegal drugs. Anabolic steroids and human growth hormone was found in a fridge at the Kiesls' home in Traun.
STELLA JONGMANS
Championship races are free from rabbits of the pace-making variety but the field for the women's 800m happens to include this former Bunny Girl. Ranked fourth in Europe this winter, the 26-year-old Dutch women earns her living as a runner these days. She is, though, sponsored by Playboy.
GRIT BREUR
Twice banned for contravening anti-doping rules, the German 400m runner is still chasing international gold. Her original suspension, for tampering with a urine sample, was overturned by the German federation. And since serving a three-year ban for using Clenbuterol she has returned to the top of the European rankings.
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