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Sport
  
Swimming

Club
  
SC Turbine Erfurt

Name
  
Jutta Langenau


Jutta Langenau

Born
  
10 October 1933 (
1933-10-10
)
Erfurt, Germany

Died
  
July 9, 1982, Erfurt, Germany

Jutta Langenau (née Großmann; 10 October 1933 – 9 July 1982) was a German swimmer who won a gold medal at the 1954 European Aquatics Championships, setting the first official world record in the 100 m butterfly. She also competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in same event and finished sixth.

After retiring from competitive swimming, from around 1956 to 1978 she worked as an instructor at a sports school, and after the birth of her third child as a sports teacher in a polytechnic high school in Erfurt. Among her students was the Olympic swimmer Roland Matthes.

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Jutta Langenau Wikipedia