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Andrea Pollack in 1977

Medal record
Women's swimming
Competitor for  East Germany
Olympic Games
Gold	Montreal 1976	200 m butterfly
Gold	Montreal 1976	4×100 m medley
Gold	Moscow 1980	4×100 m medley
Silver	Montreal 1976	4×100 m freestyle
Silver	Montreal 1976	100 m butterfly
Silver	Moscow 1980	100 m butterfly
World ChampionsHips (LC)
Silver	1978 Berlin	100 m butterfly
Bronze	1978 Berlin	200 m butterfly
Silver	1978 Berlin	4×100 m medley
European Championships (LC)
Gold	1977 Jönköping	100 m butterfly
Gold	1977 Jönköping	4×100 m medley
Silver	1977 Jönköping	200 m butterfly

Andrea Pollack (born 8 May 1961) is a former butterfly swimmer from East Germany, who won two gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada at age fifteen.

She triumped in the individual 200 m butterfly and with the women's relay team in the 4×100 m medley. Pollack also collected two silvers at the Montreal Games. Four years later in Moscow she collected two more medals, a gold in 4×100 m medley relay and a silver in the 100 m butterfly. in 1978 she twice broke the world record in the women's 200 m butterfly. At least, she was a member of SC Dynamo Berlin. In 1998, several former East German swimmers have gone public with accusations against their coaches and physicians that they were systematically doped, Andrea Pollack being one of them.^[1]

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Records
Preceded by Christiane Knacke	Women's 100 metre butterfly world record holder (long course) July 3, 1978 – April 11, 1980	Succeeded by Mary T. Meagher
Preceded by Rosemarie Gabriel	Women's 200 metre butterfly world record holder (long course) April 9, 1978 – July 7, 1979	Succeeded by Mary T. Meagher