Christiane Harzendorf

Christiane Harzendorf (born December 28, 1967 in Borna ) is a former rowing woman from the German Democratic Republic who rowed in the German national team from 1991.

Harzendorf began her career at SC DHfK Leipzig . In 1989 she became GDR champion together with Heike Winkler , Annegret Strauch and Ute Wagner in a four-man team without a tax woman . At the World Championships in Bled Ina Justh was in the boat for Winkler, Harzenberg, Justh, Strauch and Wagner won the title in front of the boats from China and Romania. In 1990 she moved to eighth with Strauch and Wagner and won the last GDR championship in this boat class. The last major appearance of the GDR national rowing team was the 1990 World Cup in Tasmania, where the GDR eighth won the bronze medal.

In 1991 Harzendorf moved to the Saarbrücken rowing club . Although she only finished second in the German championship, she was among the German eighth at the world championship in Vienna, and the boat took fifth place. From 1992 to 1994 Harzendorf won three German championship titles with the eighth. At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, the German eighth in the line-up, Annegret Strauch, Sylvia Dördelmann , Cerstin Petersmann , Kathrin Haacker , Dana Pyritz , Christiane Harzendorf, Ute Wagner, Judith Zeidler and taxwoman Daniela Neunast won the bronze medal. Harzendorf also won bronze with eighth at the 1993 World Cup.

For winning the bronze medal in 1992 she received - together with the eight crew - 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

Christiane Harzendorf in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
German successes at world championships
German championships in eighth

Individual evidence

↑ 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 ...

personal data
SURNAME	Harzendorf, Christiane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German rower
DATE OF BIRTH	December 28, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH	Borna

[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 ...