Gabriele Wetzko
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| File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-J0411-0005-001, Gabriele Wetzko.jpg Gabriele Wetzko in 1970 | ||
| Medal record | ||
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| Women's swimming | ||
| Representing File:Flag of East Germany.svg East Germany | ||
| Summer Olympic Games | ||
| Silver medal – second place | 1968 Mexico City | 4×100 m freestyle |
| Silver medal – second place | 1972 Munich | 4×100 m freestyle |
| Silver medal – second place | 1972 Munich | 4×100 m medley |
| European Championships | ||
| Gold medal – first place | 1970 Barcelona | 200 m freestyle |
| Gold medal – first place | 1970 Barcelona | 100 m freestyle |
| Gold medal – first place | 1970 Barcelona | 4×100 m medley |
| Gold medal – first place | 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]
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- 1954 births
- Living people
- Olympic swimmers for East Germany
- Swimmers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for East Germany
- Swimmers from Leipzig
- World record setters in swimming
- German female freestyle swimmers
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists in swimming
- East German female freestyle swimmers
- Sportspeople from Bezirk Leipzig