Beate Schramm

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Beate Schramm (born June 21, 1966 in Leisnig ) is a former rower who became Olympic champion in the quad sculls for the GDR in 1988 .

The junior world champion from 1983 and 1984 in the single was second behind Jutta Hampe at the GDR championship in 1983 . In 1985 behind Cornelia Linse and in 1986 behind Sylvia Schwabe , she was once again GDR runner-up. At the 1986 World Cup, she started in double sculls with Sylvia Schwabe and also won the title. After the two were only fifth at the World Cup in 1987, Schramm changed her partner and competed with Kathrin Boron . The two could not prevail internally in the GDR against the later Olympic champions Birgit Peter and Martina Schröter . Schramm switched to the double quad , at the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 the GDR double quad won gold in the line-up of Jana Sorgers , Kristina Mundt , Beate Schramm and Kerstin Förster . For this victory and for winning the world championship title in 1986, she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold in 1986 and 1988 .

In 1989 Schramm became world champion in double sculls with Jana Sorgers, and in 1990 and 1991 she won the title with Kathrin Boron. In 1991 and 1992 Schramm won the German championship in single. At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , however, she missed the finals, and did not make it to the B final.

Beate Schramm started for SG Dynamo Potsdam , later for the Potsdamer Ruder-Gesellschaft . She trained first with Jutta Lau , later with Jörg Landvoigt and Lothar Trawiel . After her career, the business clerk first worked in the Brandenburg Ministry of Finance; later she switched to the police.

literature

  • Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. Neues Deutschland , October 15, 1986, p. 7
  2. Neues Deutschland, 12./13. November 1988, p. 4

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