Caren Metschuck

Caren Metschuck

Caren Metschuck (right) at the GDR Swimming Championships in East Berlin (1978)

Personal information

Surname:

Caren Metschuck

Nation:

German Democratic Republic

Swimming style (s) :

Freestyle, butterfly

Birthday:

September 27, 1963

Place of birth:

Greifswald

Size:

1.84 m

Medal table

Medals

Olympic games
gold	1980 Moscow	100 m Schmett.
gold	1980 Moscow	4 × 100 m freestyle
gold	1980 Moscow	4 × 100 m layers
silver	1980 Moscow	100 m freestyle
World Championship
gold	1982 Guayaquil	4 × 100 m freestyle
silver	1978 Berlin	4 × 100 m freestyle
European Championship
gold	1981 split	100 m freestyle
gold	1981 split	4 × 100 m freestyle
gold	1981 split	4 × 100 m layers

Caren Metschuck (born September 27, 1963 in Greifswald ) is a former German swimmer and multiple Olympic champion .

At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , she was Olympic champion over 100 m butterfly . She also won gold with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay and the 4 × 100 m individual relay relay . This made her the most successful female participant in these Olympic Games. A year later she became European champion over 100 m freestyle at the European Championships in Split in 1981 and again won the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay and the 4 × 100 m individual relay relay. After the 1982 World Championships and the world championship title with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay, she ended her short career and became a teacher.

In 1990 she was inducted into the international swimming pool 's hall of fame . In 1980 she was awarded the Silver Patriotic Order of Merit .

Today her name is Caren Mahn and worked as a regional trainer at SC Empor Rostock 2000 until August 2010 , where she a. a. trained the former top German swimmer Thomas Rupprath .

literature

Olaf W. Reimann: Metschuck, Caren . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Caren Metschuck - collection of images, videos and audio files

Caren Metschuck in the International Swimming Hall of Fame (English)
Caren Metschuck in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
Caren Metschuck in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
doping

Individual evidence

↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 3
↑ Bernd-Dieter Herold: Rostock: Caren Mahn most successful Olympic participant in 1980 in Moscow: Staying true to the wet element | svz.de. Retrieved January 13, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Metschuck, Caren
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Warning, Caren
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 27, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Greifswald

[1] Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 3

[2] Bernd-Dieter Herold: Rostock: Caren Mahn most successful Olympic participant in 1980 in Moscow: Staying true to the wet element | svz.de. Retrieved January 13, 2019 .