Andrea Pollack

Andrea Pollack (born May 8, 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 200m Butterfly and with the Women's Relay Team in the 4x100m Medley. Pollack also collected two silvers at the Montreal Games. Four years later in Moscow she collected two more medals, a gold in 4x100m Medley Relay and a silver in the 100m Butterfly. in 1978 she twice broke the world record in the women's 200m 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. [cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3883/is_199807/ai_n8790764|title=Drugs update|publisher=Sports Publications|date=July 1998|accessdate=2008-03-11]

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* [http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=POLLAAND01 databaseOlympics]