Carola Nitschke (later Beraktschjan, born 1 March 1962) is a retired East German swimmer.

She also won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m medley relay, though she swam only in a preliminary round.

[1] Shortly before the Olympics she set world records in the 4 × 100 m medley relay and 100 m breaststroke.

Next year she won a gold and a silver medal in these events at the 1977 European Aquatics Championships.

[2] 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.