Andrea Pollack (later Pinske; 8 May 1961 – 13 March 2019) was a
butterfly swimmer
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from
East Germany
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who won three Olympic gold medals.
Pollack was born in 1961 in
Schwerin
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. She was a member of
SC Dynamo Berlin. She who won two gold medals at the
1976 Summer Olympics
Events January
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in
Montreal, Quebec
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, 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.
Pollack won a gold in the
4×100 m medley relay and a silver in the
100 m butterfly at the
1980 Moscow Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...
. 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.
Pollack married Norbert Pinske who competed in cycling. Their son,
Michael Pinske
Michael Pinske (born 22 August 1985) is a German judoka. His mother, Andrea Pollack, won three Olympic gold medals in swimming.
Achievements
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1985 births
Living people
German male judoka
Judoka at th ...
, went to the
2008 Summer Olympics as a
judoka.
See also
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List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
References
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1961 births
2019 deaths
Sportspeople from Schwerin
Olympic swimmers of East Germany
East German female butterfly swimmers
East German female freestyle swimmers
Swimmers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for East Germany
Olympic silver medalists for East Germany
World record setters in swimming
World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists in swimming
Olympic silver medalists in swimming
Doping cases in swimming
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