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Daniela Hunger has competed for East Germany Daniela Hunger has competed for Germany Daniela Hunger has won 2 gold medals at the Olympic Games Daniela Hunger has won 1 silver medal at the Olympic Games Daniela Hunger has won 3 bronze medals at the Olympic Games

Daniela Hunger is a swimmer who has competed for East Germany and Germany. She competed at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympic Games.

Hunger was one of the top swimmers from the former East Germany after the country's reunification in 1990. She arrived at her first Olympics in 1988 as a top medal favorite in the medley double (200 and 400). She claimed her first Olympic medal with a bronze under the sub-4:40 range in the 400 metres individual medley, trailing the winner Janet Evans by a couple of a seconds. She continued her success by setting a new Olympic record for the gold in the 200. She also helped the East German women solidify a gold medal triumph over the Americans by three seconds in the 4x100 metres freestyle relay.

Four years later in Barcelona, Hunger returned to her second Games as the defending champion of the 200 metres individual medley, but she missed her title defense with a bronze in the final behind the winner Lin Li and the runner-up Summer Sanders. Though she failed to attain another medal in the other half of a medley double (400), Hunger redeemed to share a bronze with Franziska van Almsick, Simone Osygus, and Manuela Stellmach in the 4x100 metres freestyle relay. She also received a silver as the butterfly swimmer of the German team in the 4x100 metres medley relay.

Hunger's swimming career was marred by the revelations of widespread performance-enhancing drugs used by East German athletes after the country's reunification. In 1998, several former East German swimmers have gone public with accusations against their coaches and physicians that they were systematically doped, including Hunger.[1]

Olympic Results[]

Year Event Rank
1988 Women's 200m individual medley Gold
Women's 400m individual medley Bronze
Women's 4x100m freestyle relay Gold
1992 Women's 200m individual medley Bronze
Women's 400m individual medley 6th
Women's 4x100m freestyle relay Bronze
Women's 4x100m medley relay Silver

1988[]

Discipline Round Time
200 metres individual medley Heats 2:16.23
A Final 2:12.59 OR
400 metres individual medley Heats 4:44.85
A Final 4:39.76
4x100 metres freestyle relay Heats 3:43.13
(55.83 split)
Final 3:40.63
(55.69 split)
OR

1992[]

Discipline Round Time
200 metres individual medley Heats 2:15.16
A Final 2:13.92
400 metres individual medley Heats 4:47.39
A Final 4:47.57
4x100 metres freestyle relay Heats 3:43.58
(55.28 split)
Final 3:41.60
(55.12 split)
4x100 metres medley relay Heats 4:10.62
(Reserve)
Final 4:05.19
(55.07 split)

References[]

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