Andrea Pollack

Andrea Pollack

Andrea Pollack in 1977
Personal information
Nationality	East Germany
Born	(1961-05-08) 8 May 1961 Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, East Germany now Germany
Height	1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	61 kg (134 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Butterfly, Freestyle
Club	SC Dynamo Berlin
Medal record Women's swimming Competitor for  East Germany Olympic Games Gold Montreal 1976 200 m butterfly Gold Montreal 1976 4×100 m medley Gold Moscow 1980 4×100 m medley Silver Montreal 1976 4×100 m freestyle Silver Montreal 1976 100 m butterfly Silver Moscow 1980 100 m butterfly World ChampionsHips (LC) Silver 1978 Berlin 100 m butterfly Silver 1978 Berlin 4×100 m medley Bronze 1978 Berlin 200 m butterfly European Championships (LC) Gold 1977 Jönköping 100 m butterfly Gold 1977 Jönköping 4×100 m medley Silver 1977 Jönköping 200 m butterfly

Andrea Pollack (born 8 May 1961, Schwerin) 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 won individual 200 m butterfly and with the women's relay team in the 4×100 m medley. Pollack also collected two silvers at the Montreal Games.

She won a gold in 4×100 m medley relay and a silver in the 100 m butterfly at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. In 1978 she twice broke the world record in the women's 200 m butterfly. 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]

References

External links

• databaseOlympics

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

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