Ursula Küper
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Born | Berlin, Germany | 28 November 1937||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||
Club | SC Dynamo Berlin | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ursula Küper (later Stille, born 28 November 1937) is a retired German swimmer. In 1960, she set a world record in the 100 m breaststroke. The same year she competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m medley relay. Two years later she won a bronze medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the 1962 European Aquatics Championships.[1] She finished eighth in this event at the 1964 Olympics.[2]
Her stepdaughter Antje Stille competed in swimming at the 1976 Olympics; Küper is married to her father Peter Stille.[2][3]
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- ^ Ursula KÜPER. the-sports.org
- ^ a b Ursula Küper. sports-reference.com
- ^ Kluge, Volker (2004). Das große Lexikon der DDR-Sportler: Die 1000 erfolgreichsten und populärsten Sportlerinnen und Sportler aus der DDR, ihre Erfolge, Medaillen und Biographien [The big lexicon of the GDR athletes: The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes, medals and biographies.] (in German) (2 ed.). Berlin: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag. p. 321. ISBN 3-89602-538-4.
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- 1937 births
- Living people
- Swimmers from Berlin
- German female swimmers
- German female breaststroke swimmers
- Olympic swimmers of the United Team of Germany
- Swimmers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United Team of Germany
- Olympic bronze medalists in swimming
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- German Olympic medalist stubs
- German swimming biography stubs