Andrea Pollack
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| Medal record | |||
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| Women's Swimming | |||
Competitor for  East Germany |
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| Olympic Games | |||
| Gold | Montreal 1976 | 200m Butterfly | |
| Gold | Montreal 1976 | 4x100m Medley | |
| Gold | Moscow 1980 | 4x100m Medley | |
| Silver | Montreal 1976 | 4x100m Freestyle | |
| Silver | Montreal 1976 | 100m Butterfly | |
| Silver | Moscow 1980 | 100m Butterfly | |
| Bronze | 1980 Moscow | 100m Breaststroke | |
| World Championsips (LC) | |||
| Silver | 1978 Berlin | 100m Butterfly | |
| Bronze | 1978 Berlin | 200m Butterfly | |
| Silver | 1978 Berlin | 4x100m Medley | |
| European Championships (LC) | |||
| Gold | 1977 Jönköping | 100m Butterfly | |
| Gold | 1977 Jönköping | 4x100m Medley | |
| Silver | 1977 Jönköping | 200m Butterfly | |
Andrea Pollack (born May 8, 1961) is a former butterfly swimmer from East Germany, who won two gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada at age fifteen.
She triumped in the individual 200m Butterfly and with the Women's Relay Team in the 4x100m Medley. Pollack also collected two silvers at the Montreal Games. Four years later in Moscow she collected two more medals, a gold in 4x100m Medley Relay and a silver in the 100m Butterfly. in 1978 she twice broke the world record in the women's 200m butterfly. At least, she was a member of SC Dynamo Berlin. In 1998, several former East German swimmers have gone public with accusations against their coaches and physicians that they were systematically doped, Andrea Pollack being one of them.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Drugs update. Sports Publications (July 1998). Retrieved on 2008-03-11.
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| Preceded by Christiane Knacke |
Women's 100 metre butterfly world record holder (long course) July 3, 1978 – April 11, 1980 |
Succeeded by Mary T. Meagher |
| Preceded by Rosemarie Gabriel |
Women's 200 metre butterfly world record holder (long course) April 9, 1978 – July 7, 1979 |
Succeeded by Mary T. Meagher |
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