Jutta Weber
Olympic swimmer

Jutta Weber

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Olympic swimmer
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Female
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28 June 1954(Hamm)
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Helge Meeuw
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Biography

Jutta Maria Weber (born 28 June 1954) is a German former swimmer who competed in the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics, and won bronze medals in the 4 × 100 m freestyle and 4 × 100 m medley relay events in 1972. She repeated this achievement next year at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships. In 1974, she won a European silver medal in the 4 × 100 m medley.
Individually, she became national champion in the 100 m (1972, 1973, 1975–1977) and 200 m freestyle (1972, 1973, 1975, 1976). The FRG 1976 Olympic team for the 200m freestyle included Regina Nissen, Marion Platten and Weber.
Her husband, Folkert Meeuw, competed for West Germany in swimming at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won a silver medal in 1972. Her son, Helge Meeuw, also competed in swimming, for unified Germany, in the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympics, and won a silver medal in 2012.