Ulrike Tauber | |
Nationality: | East German |
Birth Date: | 16 June 1958 |
Birth Place: | Karl-Marx-Stadt, Sachsen, East Germany now Germany |
Weight: | 61kg (134lb) |
Club: | SC Karl-Marx-Stadt |
Strokes: | Butterfly Medley |
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Ulrike Tauber (born 16 June 1958) is a retired medley and butterfly swimmer from East Germany, who won the gold medal in the women's 400 m individual medley at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. There she also captured the silver medal in the women's 200 m butterfly. In the 1970s Tauber set numerous world records in the 200 m and 200 m individual medley.