Christine Collins

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Christine Collins , to 1996, Christine Smith , (* 9. September 1969 in Darien , Connecticut ) is a former American lightweight - rower .

Christine Smith began rowing in 1987. She won her first international medal at the 1991 World Championships in Vienna , when she and Ellen Minzner , Alison Shaw and Kelly Sherman won bronze in the lightweight foursome without helmsman behind the boats from China and the United Kingdom. Three years later Christine Smith, Danika Holbrook-Harris , Charlotte Hollings and Linda Muri won the title in front of the British and Chinese women at the 1994 World Championships in Indianapolis in front of a home crowd . At the 1995 and 1996 World Championships, Christine Smith and Ellen Minzner won the lightweight two-man competition without a helmsman .

After a year break returned Christine Collins in 1998 with a new name as Skull -Ruderin back and won at the World Championships in Cologne together with Sarah Garner in the lightweight double sculls before the boats from Germany and Romania. In 1999 in St. Catharines, Canada, the Romanians Constanța Burcică and Camelia Macoviciuc won ahead of Collins and Garner. At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 Constanța Burcică and Angela Alupei won the gold medal just ahead of the Germans Valerie Viehoff and Claudia Blasberg , and Collins and Garner secured the bronze medal, more than three seconds behind.

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SURNAME Collins, Christine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smith, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rower
DATE OF BIRTH 9th September 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Darien , Connecticut