Jutta Langenau ( Großmann; 10 October 1933 – 9 July 1982) was a German swimmer who won a gold medal at the
1954 European Aquatics Championships
The 1954 LEN European Aquatics Championships were held 31 August – 5 September in Turin, Italy. In swimming, butterfly events were contested for the first time; 100 m for women and 200 m for men.
Medal table
Medal summary Diving
;Men's events ...
, setting the first official world record in the 100 m butterfly at 1:16.6 minutes.
[ She also competed at the ]1956 Summer Olympics
The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, whi ...
in same event and finished sixth.[
From 1949 to 1959, she won 15 East German titles:][ 100 m backstroke in 1949, 100 m freestyle in 1951, 400 m freestyle in 1950, '51, '52, 1954, '55, '56, 1958 (silver in 1957, bronze in 1959), 1500 m freestyle in 1958 and 1959 (not organised before 1958), 100 butterfly in 1955, '56, 1958 and 1959.
In 1954 she was the first sportswoman elected into the ]Volkskammer
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The Volkskammer (, ''People's Chamber'') was the unicameral legislature of the German Democratic Republic (colloquially known as East Germany).
The Volkskammer was initially the lower house of a bicameral legislature. The upper house ...
(People's Chamber), the parliament of former GDR, representing the Free German Youth
The Free German Youth (german: Freie Deutsche Jugend; FDJ) is a youth movement in Germany. Formerly, it was the official youth movement of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
The organization was meant ...
(FDJ).[
Towards the end of her swimming career and after retiring from competitive swimming, from 1956 to 1978, she worked as an instructor at a sports school. After the birth of her third child she was a sports teacher in a polytechnic high school in Erfurt. Among her students was the Olympic swimmer ]Roland Matthes
Roland Matthes (, ; 17 November 1950 – 20 December 2019) was a German swimmer and the most successful backstroke swimmer of all time. Between April 1967 and August 1974 he won all backstroke competitions he entered. He won four European champ ...
.Jenaer Sportgeschichte in Fotos. TLZ-Serie: Jenas Sporthistorie in Wort und Bild
p. 84 (in German) sport-geschichte-jena.de
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1933 births
1982 deaths
German female swimmers
Female butterfly swimmers
Swimmers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Olympic swimmers for the United Team of Germany
Sportspeople from Erfurt
European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
20th-century German women