Eva-Maria ten Elsen
 Eva-Maria ten Elsen in 1956 | ||||||||||||
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| Born | 14 September 1937 Altenburg, Germany | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||
| Club | SC Rotation Leipzig | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Eva-Maria ten Elsen (later Hartmann, born 14 September 1937) is a German former swimmer who won a bronze medal in the 200 m breaststroke event at the 1956 Summer Olympics.[1]
She failed to qualify for the 1960 Olympics, and in 1961 retired from swimming. After graduating in 1966 from the German University of Physical Education (DHfK) in Leipzig she worked for several years as a swimming coach. From 1971 to 1990 she was employed by the sporting goods company Expovita. After the German reunification, she worked in the real estate and public health insurance areas.[2]
References
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- ^ "Eva-Maria ten Elsen". sports-reference. Archived from the original on 13 November 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
- ^ Volker Kluge: Das große Lexikon der DDR-Sportler. Die 1000 erfolgreichsten und populärsten Sportlerinnen und Sportler aus der DDR. Ihre Erfolge und Biographien. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9, p. 82.
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