Christel Rupke (7 March 1919 – 16 November 1998) was a German

swimmer Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic ...

. She competed in the women's 100 metre backstroke at the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to ...

, where she did not advance to the finals. She was one of the Olympic athletes featured in the "Brennpunkte des Deutschen Sports" card series issued by Muratti Cigarettes. She retired from swimming in 1938. She lost two husbands during the course of

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. After the war she worked for the

Solingen Solingen (; ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 25 km east of Düsseldorf along the northern edge of the Bergisches Land, south of the Ruhr. After Wuppertal, it is the second-largest city in the Bergisches Land, and a member of ...

town hall.

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* 1919 births 1998 deaths German female backstroke swimmers Olympic swimmers for Germany Swimmers at the 1936 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Solingen Swimmers from Düsseldorf (region) 20th-century German sportswomen {{Germany-swimming-bio-stub