Otto, Kristin

Otto, Kristin

▪ German athlete
born Feb. 7, 1966, Leipzig, E.Ger.
 
 German swimmer, the first female athlete to win six gold medals at a single Olympic Games.

      Otto entered a special sports school at age 11 after East Germany's comprehensive scouting program identified her as a swimming prospect. In 1982 she set her first world record as a member of her country's 4 × 100-metre medley relay team. A favourite to win a medal at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, Otto was unable to compete because of East Germany's boycott. Later that year she cracked a vertebra and spent nine months in a neck brace; although physicians advised her to give up her sport, she returned to compete at the 1986 world championships in Madrid, winning four gold and two silver medals.

      At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, Otto entered six events and won gold medals in all of them. Her individual victories included the 100-metre butterfly, 50-metre freestyle, 100-metre freestyle, and 100-metre backstroke. She also swam the lead leg in East Germany's 4 × 100-metre freestyle relay victory and the backstroke leg in the 4 × 100-metre individual medley relay. Prior to Otto's achievement, no woman had won more than four gold medals at a single Olympics.

      Otto was considered one of the most versatile female swimmers, winning world or Olympic championships in the backstroke, butterfly, freestyle, and individual medley. She retired after the 1988 Olympics.

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