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Roswitha Krause (born 3 November 1949) is a retired German freestyle swimmer and team handball player. She is the first woman to win Summer Olympic medals in two different sports. Krause won a silver medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico in the 4×100 m freestyle relay. She then focused on handball and won a silver and a bronze medal with East German teams at the 1976 and 1980 Olympics respectively as well as two world titles in 1975 and 1978 and three European Cups.
