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Andrea Pollack
(8 May 1961 – 13 March 2019) was a German
butterfly
swimmer
. She was born in
Schwerin
,
East Germany
. Pollack won two gold medals at the
1976 Summer Olympics
in
Montreal, Quebec
, Canada, at age fifteen. She won a gold in the 4×100 m medley relay and a silver in the 100 m butterfly at the
1980 Moscow Olympics
.
Pollack died on 13 March 2019 from
pancreatic cancer
in
Berlin
, aged 57.
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