Rica Reinisch

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Rica Reinisch Biography

German swimmer who won three gold medals at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and set four world records in the process.

She began swimming competitively when she was 8 years old.

She was widely suspected of being given steroids by coaches under instruction of the Stasi.

She has two children and they both swam competitively as well.

She competed in the 1980 Olympics where gymnast Nadia Comaneci won a silver medal.

Rica Reinisch (later Assmann then Neumann; born 6 April 1965 in Seifhennersdorf, Saxony) is a retired swimmer from East Germany. She was a specialist in backstroke, setting four world records in the Moscow Games (three in 100 m backstroke: 1:01.51, 1:01.50 and 1:00.86; one in 200 m backstroke 2:11.77), at the age of fifteen. She won gold medals in the 100 m and 200 m backstroke and as a member of the 4 x 100 medley relay team.

In January 1980, she realized that she had the potential to become an Olympic champion. In the swimming invitational in Austin (Texas), a kind of “world female championship”, she was barely beaten by the American world champion Linda Jezek (1:03.74 to 1:03.15). One month later she recorded a time of 1:02.46, better than every active swimmer, less than one second away from the world record held by her countrywoman Ulrike Richter. In the 200 m backstroke she went under 2:20 at 2:15.59. The “records route” was opened for Reinisch. The hardest was, maybe, winning the national championships where she suffered one defeat by Petra Riedel. But she improved in time for the Olympic Games. Shortly before she had swum the 100 m backstroke in 1:01.77.

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