Gabriele Wetzko
Former German swimmer
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1968 Mexico City | 4×100 m freestyle |
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1972 Munich | 4×100 m freestyle |
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1972 Munich | 4×100 m medley |
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1970 Barcelona | 200 m freestyle |
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1970 Barcelona | 100 m freestyle |
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1970 Barcelona | 4×100 m medley |
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1970 Barcelona | 4×100 m freestyle |
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Gabriele Wetzko (later Hartung then Frischke then Kühne , born 24 August 1954 in Leipzig ) is a former German swimmer . Born in Leipzig , East Germany , she competed for East Germany in the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics . [1]
At the 1968 Olympics she competed in the 200 m, 400 m and 4 × 100 m freestyle events. The 4 × 100 m freestyle East German team of Gabriele Wetzko, Uta Schmuck , Gabriele Perthes and Roswitha Krause won a silver medal. [1]
At the 1970 European Aquatics Championships in Barcelona , she won four gold medals: in the 100 m [2] and 200 m freestyle, [3] as well as in the 4×100 medley [4] and 4×100 m freestyle relays. [4]
At the 1972 Olympics she competed in the 100 m freestyle, 4×100 m medley relay and 4×100 m freestyle relay, where her team, once again, won the silver medal. [1]
In 1973, she completed her swimming career and began studying for a medical degree, later receiving a degree in economics as well. She married the swimmer Wilfried Hartung on 15 September 1973 but they divorced soon after. [5]
References
- 1 2 3 "Gabriele Wetzko" . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com . Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 14 September 2011 . Retrieved 31 December 2008 .
- ↑ "Swimming European Championships Women: 100 m Freestyle" . Sports123.com . Retrieved 30 December 2008 .
- ↑ "Swimming European Championships Women: 200 m Freestyle" . Sports123.com . Retrieved 30 December 2008 .
- 1 2 "Swimming European Championships Women: 4 x 100 m Medley Relay" . Sports123.com . Retrieved 30 December 2008 .
- ↑ Kluge, Volker (2004). Das große Lexikon der DDR-Sportler: Die 1000 erfolgreichsten und populärsten Sportlerinnen und Sportler aus der DDR, ihre Erfolge, Medaillen und Biographien [ The big lexicon of the GDR athletes: The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes, medals and biographies. ] (in German) (2 ed.). Berlin: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag . pp. 204f. ISBN 3-89602-538-4 .
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