Andrea Pollack, later known as Andrea Pinske, was a butterfly swimmer from East Germany, born in Schwerin on 8 May 1961 and died on 13 March 2019. A member of SC Dynamo Berlin, she won two gold medals at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal at age fifteen, taking the individual 200 metre butterfly and the 4x100 metre medley relay, and she added two silver medals there. At the 1980 Moscow Olympics she won gold in the medley relay and silver in the 100 metre butterfly, giving her three Olympic gold medals in all. She twice broke the world record in the 200 metre butterfly in 1978. In 1998 she joined other former East German swimmers in accusing coaches and physicians of systematic doping.
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Competed In: 1976 Summer Olympics, Career, competition 1
gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Competed In: 1980 Summer Olympics, Career, competition 2
a silver in the 100 m butterfly at the 1980 Moscow Olympics
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