Andrea Pollack

Andrea Pollack (later Pinske; 8 May 1961 – 13 March 2019) was a butterfly swimmer from East Germany who won three Olympic gold medals.

Andrea Pollack

Andrea Pollack in 1977
Personal information
Nationality	East German
Born	8 May 1961 Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, East Germany now Germany
Died	13 March 2019 (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

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]

See also

• List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame

References

1. 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.
2. "Drugs update". Sports Publications. July 1998. Archived from the original on 21 September 2008. Retrieved 11 March 2008.
3. 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.
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.

External links

• "Andrea Pollack at databaseOlympics.com". Archived from the original on 19 February 2007. Retrieved 16 October 2006.