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Kornelia Ender

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Kornelia Ender (later Matthes now Grummt, born 25 October 1958) is a former East German swimmer who at the 1976 Summer Olympics became the first woman swimmer to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games, all in world record times. It was later proven that the East German team doctors had systematically administered steroids to their athletes (albeit without the athletes' knowledge). As she had exhibited symptoms of steroid use in 1976 (deep voice, overdeveloped body), strong suspicion was cast on the validity of Ender's accomplishments. Ender trained from a young age and won her first Olympic medals as a 13-year-old at the 1972 Olympics in Munich: three silver medals, including one in the 200 m individual medley, finishing behind Australia's Shane Gould. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kornelia Ender is the 18th most popular swimmer (up from 27th in 2019), the 3,604th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,293rd in 2019) and the most popular German Swimmer.

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Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Kornelia Ender ranks 18 out of 709. Before her are Frederick Holman, Katalin Szőke, Doug Russell, Carolyn Schuler, Galina Prozumenshchikova, and István Bárány. After her are Bill Mulliken, Ken Huszagh, Don Schollander, Ken Walsh, Joe Ruddy, and Roland Matthes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Kornelia Ender ranks 156. Before her are Lakhdar Belloumi, Charlie Kaufman, Stephen Hopkins, Hiromi Kawakami, Sergey Litvinov, and Kuupik Kleist. After her are Zlatko Vujović, Belinda Carlisle, Marc William Buie, Antoine Kambanda, Pekka Haavisto, and David O. Russell.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kornelia Ender ranks 3,606 out of 7,253. Before her are Rudolf Schlechter (1872), Georg Heinrich von Görtz (1668), Henriette Sontag (1806), Carl Gustav Witt (1866), Adolf Bernhard Meyer (1840), and Paul Bader (1883). After her are Else Krüger (1915), Princess Johanna Charlotte of Anhalt-Dessau (1682), Conrad Albrecht (1880), August Beer (1825), Siegfried Rauch (1932), and Ernest Frederick, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1560).

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Among SWIMMERS In Germany

Among swimmers born in Germany, Kornelia Ender ranks 1. After her are Roland Matthes (1950), Otto Fahr (1892), Barbara Krause (1959), 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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