Bianka Swede

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Bianka Schwede (born January 9, 1953 in Dresden , after marriage to Bianka Borrmann ) is a former rower from the GDR . She won Olympic gold in a foursome with a helmswoman in 1976 .

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Bianka Swede won in 1970 at Spartakiade in the eighth . From 1973 to 1975 and then again in 1977, the rower from SC Einheit Dresden won the GDR championships in eighth place. At the 1974 World Rowing Championships on the Rotsee near Lucerne, competitions for women were on the program for the first time. The GDR eighth with Doris Mosig , Gunhild Blanke , Irina Müller , Brigitte Ahrenholz , Bianka Schwede, Ilona Richter , Henrietta Dobler , Helma Lehmann and taxwoman Sabine Brincker won the title. In the following year, Bianka Schwede was one of the partially replaced eighth at the World Championships in Nottingham, who was able to successfully defend the title.

At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, women's rowing had its Olympic premiere. The boats from the GDR won four gold medals and two silver medals in the six boat classes. The first decision was the four with a helmsman, where the Dresden boat with Karin Metze , Bianka Schwede, Gabriele Lohs , Andrea Kurth and helmsman Sabine Heß won the first Olympic gold medal in women's rowing. In 1977 all five rowers from the gold foursome were in eighth position, which won the third consecutive world title in Amsterdam. In 1974 and 1976 she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit.

Bianka Schwede worked as a secretary at the Robotron combine in Dresden.

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. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In: New Germany . ZEFYS newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (free registration required).
  2. ^ New Germany, September 10, 1976, p. 4

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personal data
SURNAME Swede, Bianka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rower
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden