Dirk Richter (born 12 September 1964 in

Cottbus Cottbus (; Lower Sorbian: ''Chóśebuz'' ; Polish: Chociebuż) is a university city and the second-largest city in Brandenburg, Germany. Situated around southeast of Berlin, on the River Spree, Cottbus is also a major railway junction with exte ...

Bezirk Cottbus Cottbus was a district () of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). The administrative seat and main town was Cottbus. History The district was established, along with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, ''de facto'' replacing the East Germa ...

) is a former

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from

East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

, who won the bronze medal in the 4×100 freestyle medley twice during the

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. He did so in 1988 with the East German team, alongside

Thomas Flemming Thomas Flemming (born 14 July 1967, in Bad Schlema) is a former freestyle swimmer from East Germany, who competed for his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics. There he won the silver medal in the 4×200 m freestyle, alongside Uwe ...

, Lars Hinneburg, and Steffen Zesner. Four years later, when

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hosted the Games, Richter represented

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and ended up third alongside Mark Pinger, Christian Tröger, and Steffen Zesner.

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* * 1964 births Living people Sportspeople from Cottbus People from Bezirk Cottbus German male swimmers Male backstroke swimmers Olympic swimmers of East Germany Olympic swimmers of Germany Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for East Germany Olympic bronze medalists for Germany Olympic bronze medalists in swimming German male freestyle swimmers World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics {{Germany-swimming-Olympic-medalist-stub