Andrea Pollack
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 Andrea Pollack in 1977 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | East German | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 May 1961 Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, East Germany (now Germany) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 13 March 2019 (aged 57) Berlin, Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly, Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | SC Dynamo Berlin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Andrea Pollack (later Pinske; 8 May 1961 – 13 March 2019) was a butterfly swimmer from East Germany who won three Olympic gold medals.
Pollack was born in 1961 in Schwerin. She was a member of SC Dynamo Berlin. She who won two gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at age fifteen. She won the individual 200 m butterfly and with the women's relay team in the 4×100 m medley. Pollack also collected two silver medals at the Montreal Games.[1]
Pollack won a gold in the 4×100 m medley relay and a silver in the 100 m butterfly at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. In 1978 she twice broke the world record in the women's 200 m butterfly. In 1998, several former East German swimmers, including Pollack, went public with accusations against their coaches and physicians that they were systematically doped.[2]
Pollack married Norbert Pinske who competed in cycling.[3] Their son, Michael Pinske, went to the 2008 Summer Olympics as a judoka.[4]
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References[edit]
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Andrea Pollack". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
- ^ "Drugs update". Sports Publications. July 1998. Archived from the original on 21 September 2008. Retrieved 11 March 2008.
- ^ Kluge, Volker (2004). Das große Lexikon der DDR-Sportler: Die 1000 erfolgreichsten und populärsten Sportlerinnen und Sportler aus der DDR, ihre Erfolge, Medaillen und Biographien [The big lexicon of the GDR athletes: The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes, medals and biographies.] (in German) (2 ed.). Berlin: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag. pp. 438f. ISBN 3-89602-538-4.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Michael Pinske". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
External links[edit]
- "Andrea Pollack at databaseOlympics.com". Archived from the original on 19 February 2007. Retrieved 16 October 2006.
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