Her rival, Marita Koch, complained in a letter that Bärbel received higher doses of steroids than her because she had relatives in the company Jenapharm.
Bärbel Schäfer | Bärbel Inhelder | Bärbel Bohley | Bärbel Wöckel |
This places her tenth on the German all-time list, behind Marlies Göhr, Marita Koch, Silke Gladisch, Katrin Krabbe, Heike Drechsler, Bärbel Wöckel, Annegret Richter, Romy Müller, Monika Hamann, Inge Helten and Ingrid Auerswald.