Born Heidi Krieger in 1966 in Berlin, Krieger is a shot putter, who competed as a woman with the East German athletics team. In 1986 as a woman, he won the European Championnships.
In 1997 he underwent sex reassignment surgery and changed his name to Andreas. This surgery was by all accounts, to finsish a process which began a long time prior.
From his mid teen years, Krieger was unwittingly fed massive doses of steroids by East german sporting officials.
Records show that in 1986, the year in which she became European champion, she was given 2,590 milligrams of Oral-Turinabol by her coach, which is roughly 1,000 milligrams more than the amount given to the Canadian athlete Ben Johnson.
His gold medal from the European Championships now forms part of a trophy which is awarded annually to Germans involved in the fight against doping. Krieger has also filed a lawsuit againest Jenapharm, the company which produced the steroids on the orders of the East German government during the 1970s and 1980s.
Krieger is quoted as saying "They killed Heidi. For me the tragedy is still that I had no choice in determining my sexual identity, the drugs decided my fate"
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