Sybille Schönrock (born 28 July 1964) is a former

butterfly Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...

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from

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. At age fifteen she won the silver medal in the women's 200m butterfly at the boycotted

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References

Sybille Schönrock at databaseOlympics.com
1964 births Living people German female butterfly swimmers East German female butterfly swimmers Swimmers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers for East Germany Olympic silver medalists for East Germany Place of birth missing (living people) Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists in swimming People from Wittenberg Swimmers from Saxony-Anhalt Sportspeople from Bezirk Halle {{Germany-swimming-Olympic-medalist-stub