Caren Metschuck

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Medal record
Competitor for East Germany
Women's Swimming
Olympic Games
Gold	1980 Moscow	4x100 m Freestyle
Gold	1980 Moscow	4x100 m Medley
Gold	1980 Moscow	100 m Butterfly
World Championsips (LC)
Silver	1978 Berlin	4x100 m Freestyle
European Championship
Gold	Split 1981	100 m Freestyle
Gold	Split 1981	4x100 m Freestyle
Gold	Split 1981	4x100 m Medley

Caren Metschuck (born September 27, 1963) is a German former swimmer and a multiple Olympic gold medalist.

[edit] Early life

Metschuck was born in Greifswald, East Germany in 1963.

[edit] Career

With the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Metschuck won Olympic gold in the 100m butterfly. She also won gold in the 4 x 100 m freestyle relay team and the 4 x 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 challenge in Split over 100 m freestyle and triumphed again with the 4 x 100m freestyle medley relay and the 4 x 100 m backstroke relay team. After the world championships 1982 and the world champion title with the 4 x 100 m freestyle medley relay, she terminated her short career and became a teacher.

She also competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin.^[1]^[2]

[edit] References

v • d • e Olympic champions in women's 100 m butterfly

1956: Shelley Mann \| 1960: Carolyn Schuler \| 1964: Sharon Stouder \| 1968: Lyn McClements \| 1972: Mayumi Aoki \| 1976: Kornelia Ender \| 1980: Caren Metschuck \| 1984: Mary T. Meagher \| 1988: Kristin Otto \| 1992: Hong Qian \| 1996: Amy Van Dyken \| 2000: Inge de Bruijn \| 2004: Petria Thomas