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Barbara Krause

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Barbara Krause (later Wanja, born on 7 July 1959 in East Berlin) is a former freestyle swimmer from East Germany. She was a three-time Olympic gold medalist and eight-time world record holder. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Krause won gold medals in the 100 m and 200 m freestyle and in the 4×100 m freestyle relay. Her husband, Lutz Wanja, is also a retired German Olympic swimmer. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Barbara Krause is the 45th most popular swimmer (up from 61st in 2019), the 4,157th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,854th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Swimmer.

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Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Barbara Krause ranks 45 out of 709. Before her are Charles Daniels, Ilona Novák, Arvo Aaltonen, George Hodgson, Yasuji Miyazaki, and Judit Temes. After her are Shigeo Arai, Károly Bartha, Willy den Ouden, Steve Clark, Kusuo Kitamura, and Kathy Ellis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Barbara Krause ranks 222. Before her are Ferzan Özpetek, Fyodor Yurchikhin, Aleksei Balabanov, Leila de Lima, Ricardo Gallego, and Adrian Paul. After her are David Shore, James MacMillan, Tsukasa Hojo, Yuriko Shima, Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh, and Ildefonso Falcones.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Barbara Krause ranks 4,159 out of 7,253. Before her are Peter Joseph Lenné (1789), Georg Buschner (1925), Johann Adolf Scheibe (1708), Christian Rohlfs (1849), Monika Zehrt (1952), and Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1756). After her are Carl Tanzler (1877), Conny Plank (1940), Paul Janes (1912), Irmgard Keun (1905), Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen (1802), and Erick-Oskar Hansen (1889).

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Among SWIMMERS In Germany

Among swimmers born in Germany, Barbara Krause ranks 4. Before her are Kornelia Ender (1958), Roland Matthes (1950), and Otto Fahr (1892). After her are Erich Rademacher (1901), Hilde Schrader (1910), Emil Rausch (1883), Georg Zacharias (1884), Ulrike Richter (1959), Andrea Pollack (1961), Max Hainle (1882), and Max Schöne (1880).

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