Renate Vogel
![]() Renate Vogel in 1971 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany | 30 June 1955||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 54 kg (119 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | SC Karl-Marx-Stadt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Renate Vogel (later Heinrich and Bauer, born 30 June 1955) is a retired East German breaststroke swimmer. She had her best achievements in the 4 × 100 m medley relay, setting two world records in 1973 and 1974, and winning a silver medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics[1] and two gold medals at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships and 1974 European Aquatics Championships. She also won two world titles in the 100 m and 200 breaststroke events in 1973,[2] and set two world records in the 100 m breaststroke in 1974.
In 1979, she fled to West Germany by boarding a plane from Budapest to Munich with a false West German passport. There she gave a series of interviews disclosing details of the East German training system[3] and later worked as a swimming coach.
Her cousin, the late Helga Lindner also competed in swimming at the 1972 Olympics.[1]
References
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- ^ a b Renate Vogel. sports-reference.com
- ^ Renate VOGEL. les-sports.info
- ^ Renate Bauer, geb. Vogel, Weltmeisterin, geb. 1955, Schwimmerin, geflohen 1979. zov-sportverraeter.de,
- 1955 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Chemnitz
- Swimmers from Saxony
- German female breaststroke swimmers
- East German female breaststroke swimmers
- Olympic swimmers for East Germany
- Swimmers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for East Germany
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Defecting sportspeople from East Germany
- East German emigrants to West Germany
- Olympic silver medalists in swimming
- Sportspeople from Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt
- German Olympic medalist stubs
- German swimming biography stubs