Carola Nitschke

{{short description|East German swimmer}}

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|caption=Carola Nitschke in 1976

|birth_date={{birth date and age|df=y|1962|3|1}}

|birth_place=Berlin, Germany

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|club=SC Dynamo Berlin

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{{MedalGold|1976 Montreal|4×100 m medley}}

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{{MedalGold|1977 Jönköping|4×100 m medley}}

{{MedalSilver|1977 Jönköping|100 m breaststroke}}

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Carola Nitschke (later Beraktschjan, born 1 March 1962) is a retired East German swimmer. She competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke and finished in fourth and sixth place, respectively. She also won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m medley relay, though she swam only in a preliminary round. Shortly before the Olympics she set world records in the 4 × 100 m medley relay and 100 m breaststroke. She was only fourteen at the time. Next year she won a gold and a silver medal in these events at the 1977 European Aquatics Championships.

Later she admitted to taking performance-enhancing drugs as part of the East German doping program; she gave up her medals and asked to remove her name from the competition records.