Dagmar Hase (born 22 December 1969 in

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) is a retired German

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. She was an Olympic champion, World champion and a European champion.

Career

Hase specialised in the

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and

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. She won seven

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medals in her career, including a

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in the 400 m freestyle at the

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. Her defeat of American swimmer

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in the 400 metre freestyle at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics was Evans's only loss in a 400 or 800 metre freestyle between 1986 and 1994. She also defeated the greatest backstroker ever, Hungary's

Krisztina Egerszegi Krisztina Egerszegi (; born 16 August 1974) is a Hungarian former world record holding swimmer and one of the greatest Hungarian Olympic champions of the modern era. She is a three-time Olympian (1988, 1992 and 1996) and five-time Olympic cham ...

, in her strongest event the 200 metre backstroke at the

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. This was Egerszegi's only defeat in a 200-metre backstroke from 1987 to her retirement in 1996, and her only defeat in any backstroke event from 1989 to 1994. Hase was a highly versatile swimmer, having won at least 1 Olympic and numerous other major event medals in each of the 200 freestyle, 400 freestyle, 800 freestyle, and 200 backstroke. At the

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in 1994 she qualified for the 200 metre freestyle as the eight best swimmer, but her teammate

Franziska van Almsick Franziska van Almsick (; born 5 April 1978) is a retired German swimmer, former world record holder in 200 metres freestyle. She was multiple World and European champion, in both Long and Short Course Championships. Career Her career began a ...

swam only the ninth best qualification time. Therefore Hase abandoned her start place and offered it to van Almsick, who then won the gold medal in the final bettering the world record.https://olympics.com/en/athletes/dagmar-hase

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1969 births Living people East German female backstroke swimmers East German female freestyle swimmers German female backstroke swimmers German female freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers for Germany Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Germany Olympic silver medalists for Germany Olympic bronze medalists for Germany Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics People from Quedlinburg Olympic bronze medalists in swimming World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Olympic gold medalists in swimming Olympic silver medalists in swimming Swimmers from Saxony-Anhalt Sportspeople from Bezirk Halle SC Magdeburg sportspeople {{Germany-swimming-Olympic-medalist-stub

Career

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