Track and Field

Helmut Meyer, head of Germany’s track federation, said the decision to suspend Katrin Krabbe and two other top women sprinters for falsified drug tests was the most “awful of my life.”

The track federation, or DLV, announced Saturday that Krabbe, the 1991 world champion at 100 meters and 200 meters, was suspended effective immediately, along with Grit Breuer and Silke Moeller. The three turned in identical urine samples.

The DLV said Krabbe and Breuer also provided identical urine in samples taken in July 1991, shortly before the World Championships at Tokyo.

Asked if this meant Krabbe and Breuer would have their world championship medals taken away, Meyer said: “The thing with the medals is the affair of the world federation IAAF.”