page_title: Carola Nitschke
hierarchical_section_title: Carola Nitschke
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Monika Seltmann, Carola Nitschke, Andrea Pollack, Barbara Krause ADN-ZB Mittelstädt 5-6-76 Berlin: 27. Meisterschaften der DDR im Sportschwimmen (5.Tag)-Vier glückliche Berliner Dynamo-Mädchen. Im letzten Wettbewerb der diesjährigen Titelkämpfer stellten in der 4 x 100-m-Lagenstaffel Monika Seltmann, Carola Nitschke, Andrea Pollach und Barbara Krause (vlnr) mit 4:13,41 min einen neuen Weltrekord auf.
context_page_description: Carola Nitschke is a retired East German swimmer. She competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke and finished in fourth and sixth place, respectively. She also won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m medley relay, though she swam only in a preliminary round. Shortly before the Olympics she set world records in the 4 × 100 m medley relay and 100 m breaststroke. She was only fourteen at the time. Next year she won a gold and a silver medal in these events at the 1977 European Aquatics Championships.
  Later she admitted to taking performance-enhancing drugs as part of the East German doping program; she gave up her medals and asked to remove her name from the competition records.
context_section_description: Carola Nitschke (later Beraktschjan, born 1 March 1962) is a retired East German swimmer. She competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke and finished in fourth and sixth place, respectively. She also won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m medley relay, though she swam only in a preliminary round. Shortly before the Olympics she set world records in the 4 × 100 m medley relay and 100 m breaststroke. She was only fourteen at the time. Next year she won a gold and a silver medal in these events at the 1977 European Aquatics Championships.
  Later she admitted to taking performance-enhancing drugs as part of the East German doping program; she gave up her medals and asked to remove her name from the competition records.
caption: Monika Seltmann, Carola Nitschke, Andrea Pollack and Barbara Krause in 1976
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