Sandra Völker (born 1 April 1974) is a retired freestyle and

backstroke Backstroke or back crawl is one of the four Swimming (sport), swimming styles used in competitive events regulated by FINA, and the only one of these styles swum on the back. This swimming style has the advantage of easy breathing, but the disa ...

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from

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, who won a total number of three (one silver, two bronze) medals at the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

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, United States. There she made her second Olympic appearance. Völker competed in four Olympics, making her debut in

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, Spain in 1992.

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* 1974 births Living people Sportspeople from Lübeck German female swimmers German female backstroke swimmers German female freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers of Germany Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Germany Olympic bronze medalists for Germany World record setters in swimming Olympic bronze medalists in swimming German female butterfly swimmers World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists in swimming 21st-century German women 20th-century German women {{Germany-swimming-Olympic-medalist-stub

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