Carsta Genaug

Carsta Genaus (born November 30, 1959 in Dresden ) is a former German canoeist .

Life

After graduating from the Polytechnic High School, Carsta Genaus attended the children's and youth sports school from 1973 to 1977 and then began her professional training as a commercial applicant , which she successfully completed in 1980. From 1986 to 1991 she completed a distance learning course at the Technical School for Advertising and Design in Berlin , where she graduated as an advertising methodologist. Genuellen married after the 1980 Summer Olympics and now competed under the name Carsta Kühn . After her active sporting career, Genuss worked as a commercial advertiser in the consumer cooperative in Dresden and later as a restorer in the State Office for Archeology in Saxony .

Athletic career

Her sporting career began in 1969 in the BSG Pentacon Dresden. From 1973 she trained and started at SC Einheit Dresden , where she was trained by Ralf Zeidler . In 1975 and 1977 she won the title in single kayak (K1) at the Junior European Championships, in 1975 also in four kayak (K4) and 1977 in two (K2). She started in the elite sector in 1978. In the same year she became world champion with the K4.

In the competitions in category K1 to qualify for the GDR national team to participate in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow , u. a. Carsta Genüß, Marion Rösiger and Martina Bischof qualified. Because of a violation of the rules that were valid in the GDR team, Rösiger was not cast for the Olympic competitions, so that the Olympic two-man (K2) started with the strongest line-up, Bishop and Genuss. This team won the gold medal over 500 m at the 1980 Olympic Games.

At the World Championships in 1978 in K4 and 1981, 1983 and 1985 in K2 and K4, she won another six gold medals. She won twice with Birgit Fischer in K2 and K4.

Carsta Genaus was awarded the Silver Patriotic Order of Merit in 1980 and gold in 1984.

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 , pp. 114–115.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 3
2. ^ New Germany, 1./2. September 1984, p. 4

Web links

• Carsta Genüß in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )