Weight 62 kg Height 1.72 m | Role Olympic athlete Name Carola Nitschke | |
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Born 1 March 1962 (age 62) ( 1962-03-01 ) Berlin, Germany Similar People Hannelore Anke, Ulrike Richter, Birgit Treiber, Wendy Boglioli, Shirley Babashoff | ||
Carola Nitschke (later Beraktschjan, born 1 March 1962) is a retired East German swimmer. She competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke and finished in fourth and sixth place, respectively. She also won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m medley relay, though she swam only in a preliminary round. Shortly before the Olympics she set world records in the 4 × 100 m medley relay and 100 m breaststroke. She was only fourteen at the time. Next year she won a gold and a silver medal in these events at the 1977 European Aquatics Championships.
Later she admitted to taking performance-enhancing drugs as part of the East German doping program; she gave up her medals and asked to remove her name from the competition records.
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