Hannelore Anke

Hannelore Anke, later known by the married name Hofmann, is a retired German swimmer who competed for East Germany in the 1970s. She was born on 8 December 1957 in Bad Schlema, the sixth of seven children of a woman in a senior post at a textile manufacturing plant and a decorative painter, and was the first godchild of Wilhelm Pieck, the East German president of her birth year. Anke won the junior title at the 1971 Junior European Swimming Championships and went on to excel in the 100 metre breaststroke and the 4 x 100 metre medley relay. In those two events she took gold at the 1976 Summer Olympics and at the 1975 World Aquatics Championships, where she also won the individual 100 metre breaststroke world title, and she set two world records. She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale in 1990. East German team officials later admitted that performance-enhancing drugs were given to her during her career.