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Ulrike Richter

1959 - Today

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Ulrike Richter (later Schmidt, born 17 June 1959) is a German former swimmer who competed for East Germany in the 1970s. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal she won three gold medals. She received two gold medals at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships, and two in 1975. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ulrike Richter has received more than 41,333 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Ulrike Richter is the 128th most popular swimmer (down from 107th in 2019), the 5,427th most popular biography from Germany (down from 5,055th in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Swimmer.

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Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Ulrike Richter ranks 128 out of 709Before her are Otto Fahr, Sharon Stouder, Hideko Maehata, Joyce Cooper, Thelma Kalama, and Perry McGillivray. After her are Julius Frey, Clare Dennis, György Mitró, Jan Henne, Claudia Kolb, and Jennie Fletcher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Ulrike Richter ranks 431Before her are Toshio Masuda, John Lauridsen, Patxi López, Dan Gilroy, David Hyde Pierce, and Ernesto Canto. After her are Lika Kavzharadze, Richard Borcherds, Ramón Calderé, Atsushi Uchiyama, Renée Fleming, and Fyodor Cherenkov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ulrike Richter ranks 5,427 out of 7,253Before her are Egon Günther (1927), Dieter Schubert (1943), Richard David Precht (1964), Gisela Birkemeyer (1931), Georg Bühler (1837), and Alva Noto (1965). After her are Anni Holdmann (1900), Armin Rohde (1955), Julius Frey (1881), Günther Bechem (1921), Antje Traue (1981), and Benno Fürmann (1972).

Among SWIMMERS In Germany

Among swimmers born in Germany, Ulrike Richter ranks 12Before her are Emil Rausch (1883), Georg Zacharias (1884), Max Hainle (1882), Michael Gross (1964), Max Schöne (1880), and Otto Fahr (1892). After her are Julius Frey (1881), Wilhelm Lützow (1892), Andrea Pollack (1961), Hannelore Anke (1957), Ulrike Tauber (1958), and Ines Diers (1963).