Pauline Sieglinde Schäfer or Schäfer-Betz (born 4 January 1997) is a German artistic gymnast who represented Germany at the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games. She is the 2017 World Champion, the 2021 World silver medalist, and the 2015 World bronze medalist on the balance beam.
Schäfer was born in 1997 in Saarbrücken, Saarland. She has one younger sister Helene and two older brothers. She began gymnastics at five years old at TV Pflugscheid-Hixberg. In 2012 she moved from Bierbach an der Blies to the boarding school Sportgymnasium Chemnitz.
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