 Renate Vogel in 1971 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | (1955-06-30)30 June 1955 (age 70) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 (laterHeinrich andBauer, born 30 June 1955) is a retired East German breaststroke swimmer. She had her best achievements in the 4 × 100 m medley relay, setting twoworld records in 1973 and 1974, and winning a silver medal at the1972 Summer Olympics[1] and two gold medals at the1973 World Aquatics Championships and1974 European Aquatics Championships. She also won two world titles in the100 m and200 breaststroke events in 1973,[2] and set twoworld 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 falseWest 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 lateHelga Lindner also competed in swimming at the 1972 Olympics.[1]
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