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Andrea Pollack
Andrea Pollack in 1977
Personal information
Nationality
East German
Born
(1961-05-08)8 May 1961 Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, East Germany (now Germany)
Died
13 March 2019(2019-03-13) (aged 57) Berlin, 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
Representing East Germany
Olympic Games
1976 Montreal
200 m butterfly
1976 Montreal
4×100 m medley
1980 Moscow
4×100 m medley
1976 Montreal
4×100 m freestyle
1976 Montreal
100 m butterfly
1980 Moscow
100 m butterfly
World ChampionsHips (LC)
1978 Berlin
100 m butterfly
1978 Berlin
4×100 m medley
1978 Berlin
200 m butterfly
European Championships (LC)
1977 Jönköping
100 m butterfly
1977 Jönköping
4×100 m medley
1977 Jönköping
200 m butterfly
Andrea Pollack (later Pinske; 8 May 1961 – 13 March 2019) was a butterfly swimmer from East Germany who won three Olympic gold medals.
Pollack was born in 1961 in Schwerin. She was a member of SC Dynamo Berlin. She who won two gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at age fifteen. She won the individual 200 m butterfly and with the women's relay team in the 4×100 m medley. Pollack also collected two silver medals at the Montreal Games.[1]
Pollack won a gold in the 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. In 1998, several former East German swimmers, including Pollack, went public with accusations against their coaches and physicians that they were systematically doped.[2]
Pollack married Norbert Pinske who competed in cycling.[3] Their son, Michael Pinske, went to the 2008 Summer Olympics as a judoka.[4]
^Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Andrea Pollack". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
^"Drugs update". Sports Publications. July 1998. Archived from the original on 21 September 2008. Retrieved 11 March 2008.
^Kluge, Volker (2004). Das große Lexikon der DDR-Sportler: Die 1000 erfolgreichsten und populärsten Sportlerinnen und Sportler aus der DDR, ihre Erfolge, Medaillen und Biographien [The big lexicon of the GDR athletes: The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes, medals and biographies.] (in German) (2 ed.). Berlin: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag. pp. 438f. ISBN 3-89602-538-4.
^Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Michael Pinske". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
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