Barbara Krause

Barbara Krause, who later took the married name Wanja, was born on 7 July 1959 in East Berlin and swam freestyle for East Germany. She won three Olympic gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, taking the 100 metre and 200 metre freestyle and swimming in the 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay, and she is recorded as an eight-time world record holder. Her husband, Lutz Wanja, also swam for Germany at the Olympics. The article on her also records that, like many East German athletes of her era, she was given banned drugs by her coaches under state direction, that she was forced off the 1976 Olympic team after a dosing miscalculation, and that both of her children were born with deformed feet, which was later attributed to her steroid use.