Sport Swimming Weight 60 kg Height 1.64 m | Role Olympic athlete Name Christiane Knacke Club SC Dynamo Berlin | |
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Born 17 April 1962 (age 62) ( 1962-04-17 ) Berlin, Germany Olympic medals Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre butterfly | ||
Christiane Knacke (born 17 April 1962) is a retired swimmer from East Germany who specialized in the 100 m butterfly. In this event she won a silver medal at the 1977 European Aquatics Championships and a bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics. She was the first woman to break the one-minute barrier in the event, when she clocked 59.78 on August 28, 1977, setting a new world record.
In 1989 she admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs against her will.
She married twice, changing her last name to Driesener and then to Sommer. Her daughter Jennifer, was born in 1983.
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