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{{MedalGold| [[1980 Summer Olympics|1980 Moscow]] | [[Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics - Women's 100 metre butterfly|100 m butterfly]]}} |
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{{MedalGold| [[1980 Summer Olympics|1980 Moscow]] | [[Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay|4×100 m freestyle]]}} |
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{{MedalGold| [[1980 Summer Olympics|1980 Moscow]] | [[Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay|4×100 m medley]]}} |
{{MedalGold| [[1980 Summer Olympics|1980 Moscow]] | [[Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay|4×100 m medley]]}} |
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{{MedalSilver| [[1980 Summer Olympics|1980 Moscow]] | [[Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics - Women's 100 metre freestyle|100 m freestyle]]}} |
{{MedalSilver| [[1980 Summer Olympics|1980 Moscow]] | [[Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics - Women's 100 metre freestyle|100 m freestyle]]}} |
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Nationality | East Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, East Germany now Germany | 27 September 1963||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Butterfly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | SC Empor Rostock | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Caren Metschuck (born 27 September 1963) is a German former swimmer and a multiple Olympic gold medalist.
Early life
Metschuck was born in Greifswald, East Germany in 1963.
Career
With the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Metschuck won Olympic gold in the 100 m butterfly. She also won gold in the 4×100 m freestyle relay team and the 4×100 m backstroke relay. Thus she became the most successful female competitor of the 1980 Summer Olympic Games.
One year later, she won the European Championships in Split over 100 m freestyle and triumphed again with the 4×100 m freestyle relay and the 4×100 m medley relay team. After the World Championships 1982 and the world champion title with the 4×100 m freestyle relay, she terminated her short career and became a teacher.
She also competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin.[1][2]
References
- 1963 births
- Living people
- Olympic swimmers of East Germany
- Olympic gold medalists for East Germany
- Swimmers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Female freestyle swimmers
- Female butterfly swimmers
- Former world record holders in swimming
- Olympic medalists in swimming
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- German swimming Olympic medalist stubs