Birth Date: | 28 June 1954 |
Birth Place: | Hamm, West Germany |
Height: | 1.69m (05.54feet) |
Weight: | 55kg (121lb) |
Sport: | Swimming |
Club: | Wasserfreunde Wuppertal |
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Judith "Jutta" Weber (later Meeuw, born 28 June 1954) is a German former swimmer who competed in the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics, and won bronze medals in the 4 × 100 m freestyle and 4 × 100 m medley relay events in 1972. She repeated this achievement next year at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships. In 1974, she won a European silver medal in the 4 × 100 m medley.
Individually, she became national champion in the 100 m (1972, 1973, 1975–1977) and 200 m freestyle (1972, 1973, 1975, 1976).[1] The FRG 1976 Olympic team for the 200 m freestyle included Regina Nissen, Marion Platten and Weber.[2]
Her husband, Folkert Meeuw, competed for West Germany in swimming at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won a silver medal in 1972. Her son, Helge Meeuw, also competed in swimming, for unified Germany, in the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympics, and won a silver medal in 2012.