Daniela Hunger

Daniela Hunger is a former medley and freestyle swimmer, born on 20 March 1972 in East Berlin, who first competed for East Germany and later for the reunified German team. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul she became a double Olympic champion, winning the women's 200 metre individual medley and taking gold as a member of the women's 4x100 metre freestyle relay team. She swam for the club SC Dynamo Berlin. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona she won three more medals, among them a silver in the 4x100 metre medley relay. In 1998 several former East German swimmers publicly accused their coaches and physicians of systematic doping, and Hunger was one of the swimmers who came forward with those accusations.