Jutta Langenau

Jutta Langenau (née Großmann; 10 October 1933 – 9 June 1982) was a German swimmer who won a gold medal at the 1954 European Aquatics Championships, setting the first official world record in the 100 m butterfly at 1:16.6 minutes.^[2][3] She also competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in same event and finished sixth.^[4]

Jutta Langenau

Langenau in 1956
Personal information
Born	(1933-10-10)10 October 1933 Erfurt, Germany
Died	9 June 1982(1982-06-09) (aged 48)[1] Erfurt, East Germany
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Club	(...-1949) KWU Erfurt (1950-1954) SV Empor Erfurt (1954-...) SC Turbine Erfurt
Coach	Johannes Horlbeck
Medal record Women's swimming Representing  East Germany European Championships 1954 Turin 100 m butterfly

From 1949 to 1959, she won 15 East German titles:^[5] 100 m backstroke in 1949, 100 m freestyle in 1951, 400 m freestyle in 1950, '51, '52, 1954, '55, '56, 1958 (silver in 1957, bronze in 1959), 1500 m freestyle in 1958 and 1959 (not organised before 1958), 100 butterfly in 1955, '56, 1958 and 1959.

In 1954 she was the first sportswoman elected into the Volkskammer (People's Chamber), the parliament of former GDR, representing the Free German Youth (FDJ).^[6]

Towards the end of her swimming career and after retiring from competitive swimming, from 1956 to 1978, she worked as an instructor at a sports school. After the birth of her third child she was a sports teacher in a polytechnic high school in Erfurt. Among her students was the Olympic swimmer Roland Matthes.^[7]