Andrea Pollack

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Medal record
Women's Swimming
Competitor for  East Germany
Olympic Games
Gold	Montreal 1976	200m Butterfly
Gold	Montreal 1976	4x100m Medley
Gold	Moscow 1980	4x100m Medley
Silver	Montreal 1976	4x100m Freestyle
Silver	Montreal 1976	100m Butterfly
Silver	Moscow 1980	100m Butterfly
Bronze	1980 Moscow	100m Breaststroke
World Championsips (LC)
Silver	1978 Berlin	100m Butterfly
Bronze	1978 Berlin	200m Butterfly
Silver	1978 Berlin	4x100m Medley
European Championships (LC)
Gold	1977 Jönköping	100m Butterfly
Gold	1977 Jönköping	4x100m Medley
Silver	1977 Jönköping	200m Butterfly

Andrea Pollack (born May 8, 1961) is a former butterfly swimmer from East Germany, who won two gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada at age fifteen.

She triumped in the individual 200m Butterfly and with the Women's Relay Team in the 4x100m Medley. Pollack also collected two silvers at the Montreal Games. Four years later in Moscow she collected two more medals, a gold in 4x100m Medley Relay and a silver in the 100m Butterfly. in 1978 she twice broke the world record in the women's 200m butterfly. At least, she was a member of SC Dynamo Berlin. In 1998, several former East German swimmers have gone public with accusations against their coaches and physicians that they were systematically doped, Andrea Pollack being one of them.^[1]

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Records
Preceded by Christiane Knacke	Women's 100 metre butterfly world record holder (long course) July 3, 1978 – April 11, 1980	Succeeded by Mary T. Meagher
Preceded by Rosemarie Gabriel	Women's 200 metre butterfly world record holder (long course) April 9, 1978 – July 7, 1979	Succeeded by Mary T. Meagher