Career
Otto won six gold medals at the 1988 Seoul Games in freestyle, backstroke and butterfly events, the most by a woman at one Olympics. Her achievements are recorded alongside the later documented East German state doping programme.
🏊 Swimming · Freestyle / backstroke
Kristin Otto
Germany · 1982–1989
Six golds at a single Olympics across three different strokes.
- 6
- Olympic golds
- 6
- Golds at one Games
- 7
- World titles
- 3
- Strokes won in
Honours
- Six gold medals at the 1988 Olympics
- Most golds by a woman at a single Games
- Seven world titles
- Won Olympic events in three different strokes
