Birte Siech

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Birte Siech (born March 19, 1967 in Berlin ) is a former rower from the German Democratic Republic . In 1988 she won the Olympics in a four-man with a helmsman .

Birte Siech from SC Berlin-Grünau was still a sculler in the youth field , she took third place in the Spartakiade in 1981 in the double foursome . Then she switched to the belt boats and won gold in the two-man without helmsman at the Junior World Championships in 1984 . In 1987 she sat in the newly formed four-wheeler with helmswoman, which was made up of rowers from Berlin and Leipzig. Birte Siech, Martina Walther , Gerlinde Doberschütz , Carola Hornig and helmsman Sylvia Müller won the silver medal behind the Romanian boat at the 1987 World Cup in Copenhagen. At the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, the five rowers won gold in front of the boats from China and Romania. At the last big appearance of the GDR national rowing team at the 1990 World Cup in Tasmania, Birte Siech and Ina Justh won bronze in a pair without. For her Olympic victory in 1988 she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , the prospective kindergarten teacher moved to Dortmund and finished her training there. She started for the rowing club Hansa from 1898 (Dortmund) and in 1991 won the German championship title in eighth. At the Olympic Games in 1992 , she competed in a four-man without a helmsman . The crew Antje Frank , Gabriele Mehl , Birte Siech and Annette Hohn took third place behind the boats from Canada and the USA. Birte Siech won the German championship in two-man without a helmsman in 1994 and 1995 together with Gabriele Mehl, but could not qualify again for the Olympic Games in 1996.

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

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , 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 awarded ... disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the 1992 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with the silver laurel leaf ...

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personal data
SURNAME Sick, Birte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Olympic champion in rowing
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin