Annette Hohn

Annette Hohn (* 22. November 1966 in Schwerin as Annette Drews ) is a former rower from the German Democratic Republic in 1992 for Germany won an Olympic bronze medal.

Annette Drews was East German champion in eighth place in 1986 and 1987 . At the Olympic Games in 1988 she was a substitute for the GDR team. In 1989, starting as Annette Hohn, she again won the GDR championship in eighth place, and at the world championship she took second place with the GDR boat. In 1990 she won her fourth GDR championship title, at the last appearance of the GDR national rowing team at the 1990 World Cup in Tasmania, she won bronze with the eighth.

After the reunification , their club changed its name from SC Dynamo Berlin to SC Berlin . She won her first all-German championship title in eighth in a racing community with rowers from Dortmund, Essen and Osnabrück. After the German women's eight finished only fifth at the 1991 World Cup, Annette Hohn switched to the four without a helmsman in 1992 and again won the German championship title in this boat class. At the 1992 Olympic Games , the crew Antje Frank , Gabriele Mehl , Birte Siech and Annette Hohn took third place behind the boats from Canada and the USA.

For winning the bronze medal in 1992 she received the silver laurel leaf on June 23, 1993 .

literature

• National Olympic Committee for Germany: Barcelona 1992. The German Olympic team . Frankfurt am Main 1992

Web links

• Annette Hohn in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• German successes at world championships

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V., VIBSS: The Federal President and his duties in the field of sport: ... on June 23, 1993, Federal President von Weizsäcker awarded ... disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the 1992 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with the silver laurel leaf ...