Barbara Krause

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Medal record
Competitor for  East Germany
Women's Swimming
Olympic Games
Gold	1980 Moscow	100m Freestyle
Gold	1980 Moscow	200m Freestyle
Gold	1980 Moscow	4x100m Medley
World Championsips (LC)
Gold	1978 Berlin	100 m Freestyle
Silver	1978 Berlin	200 m Freestyle
Silver	1978 Berlin	4x100m Freestyle
Silver	1978 Berlin	4x100m Medley
European Championships (LC)
Gold	1977 Jönköping	100 m Freestyle
Gold	1977 Jönköping	4x100m Freestyle
Silver	1977 Jönköping	200 m Freestyle
Bronze	1977 Jönköping	400 m Freestyle

Barbara Krause is a female German swimmer, born in East Berlin, on July 7th 1959 .

Being the favorite in 400 m. freestyle in Montreal Olympic Games (1976) because of her recent world record of 4'11"69 (improving the Shirley Babashoff's one) she couldn't go to Canada due to a serious bronchitis. And, however, She will save the succession of her fellow countrywoman Kornelia Ender in the world swimming top. In the West Berlin World Championships(1978), she was favorite in 100, 200 and 400 m. freestyle. She just had erased the last two Kornelia Ender's world records( 55"41 in the 100 m. and 1'59"4 in the 200 m.). But those championships were a defeat for GDR female swimmers, dominated by the Americans. Beaten by her great opponent Cynthia Woodhead in the last split of the 4 x 100 m. medley relay, Krause couldn't take the revenge in the 200 m. freestyle, where the American took her world record (1'58"83). She got her team's lonely golden medal the last day of competitions overcoming in the 100 m. feestyle. Powerful(5'10"- 172 lb), but mentally weak, She knew the defeat in 200 m. and 400 m. in the Jônkôping European Championships in 1977 too. However her favorite distance was the 100 m., performing 55"70 in 1979. She beat the Americans including Woodhead in the 100 m. in January of 1980, but was menaced in her country by new swimmers, specially the young Caren Metschuck who had already beaten Krause. When she went up the top of the 100 m. podium in The Moscow Olympics, the beautiful East German could think she had wait over four years for this prize. A rare achievement for a sport where the renovation is the rule. Metschuck showed herself from the beginning as a dangerous opponent, but Krause was "untreatable". She answered to each success from her rival with a performance clearly superior. To start, in the heats she went under 55" (54"98, time very difficult to do for male youngsters at those years). In the final She didn't give any chance to Metschuck and set the record in 54"79. In 200 m. She literally took a stroll in the first two laps and attacked in the final one to overcome with a wide gap. Despite these performances the trainers chose Metschuck for the 4x 100 m medley relay.