Anke von Seck

Anke von Seck , née Nothnagel , (born September 10, 1966 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) is a former German canoeist . She won three Olympic gold medals and one silver medal.

Athletic career

In 1987 she beat Birgit Schmidt in a single kayak at the GDR championships and won her only individual title. At the world championship she started in two-person kayaks and four-person kayaks and won both times together with Birgit Schmidt . A year later at the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 Birgit Schmidt and Anke Nothnagel competed again and won gold. Together with Ramona Portwich and Heike Singer , Nothnagel and Schmidt also won gold in a four-person kayak. For these victories she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold.

In 1989, Anke Nothnagel and Heike Singer became world champions together in a two-man and both sat in a successful four-man. Anke Nothnagel married between the 1989 and 1990 seasons and has since competed under her new name. Anke von Seck was together with Ramona Portwich world champion in the two-man over 500 meters and for the first time over 5000 meters, both canoeists also sat in the successful four-man.

After the reunification, Portwich and von Seck started in 1991 for the reunified Germany and defended all three world championship titles. At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , Portwich and von Seck won the two-man kayak title. Together with Birgit Schmidt and Katrin Borchert, the two lost to the Hungarians in a four-person kayak and won silver.

For their sporting achievements, she and her partner Ramona Portwich were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on June 23, 1993.

Anke von Seck then ended her competitive sports career and concentrated on studying education. But she stayed with her club SC Empor Rostock as a trainer.

literature

Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 .
National Olympic Committee for Germany: Barcelona 92. The German Olympic team. Frankfurt am Main 1992.

Web links

Anke von Seck in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Anke von Seck in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

↑ New Germany . 12./13. November 1988, p. 4.
↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V., VIBSS: The Federal President and his duties in the field of sport: “… on June 23, 1993, Federal President von Weizsäcker signed…. disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the Olympic and Paralympic Games 1992, with the silver laurel leaf from ... "

personal data
SURNAME	Seck, Anke von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nothnagel, Anke (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German canoeist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 10, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brandenburg on the Havel

[1] New Germany . 12./13. November 1988, p. 4.

[2] Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V., VIBSS: The Federal President and his duties in the field of sport: “… on June 23, 1993, Federal President von Weizsäcker signed…. disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the Olympic and Paralympic Games 1992, with the silver laurel leaf from ... "