Claudia Knape

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Claudia Knape (1991)

Claudia Knape (born October 6, 1969 in Bensberg ) is a successful German motorboat racing driver .

Life

Claudia is the daughter of Ekkehard and Waltraud Knape. She has two younger brothers, Oliver and Knut. After completing school, she learned the carpentry trade in her father's business , passed the journeyman's examination and the master’s examination . She is married to Steffen Bauß and has two daughters.

Sporting successes

Silver laurel ceremony with Claudia Knape (left)

Even as a child, Claudia Knape was out and about with her father Ekkehard when he competed in motorboat races in Germany, Europe or around the world. When she reached the required age limit, she started her own racing career. Together with her father, she built her own racing boats.

After her success in circuit racing , she was committed to the USA for one year in offshore racing .

  • 1986 German vice-champion class OSY-400
  • 1987 German vice-champion class OSY-400
  • 1988 Vice World Champion class OSY-400
  • 1989 European champion class OSY-400
  • 1990 World Champion class OSY-400
  • 1995 course record Miami - West Palm Beach (112 km in 46 min 17 sec = 145 km / h)

Class OSY-400: racing boat class, uniform with standard Yamato outboard motors 400 cc

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Report: Warning, here comes Claudia , EXPRESS newspaper (Cologne), July 13, 1994
  2. ↑ Report: Finally again international titles for German pilots , Skipper magazine (Miesbach), issue 8, August 1988, page 51
  3. ↑ Report: The young Flitzer , magazine stander (Herford), issue 10/90, pages 124–126
  4. ↑ Report: The fastest girl in the world , magazine magazine for water sports in the west (Monschau), issue 11/90, page 35
  5. ^ Report: Bergische Powerboot-Pilotin set a new record , newspaper Kölnische Rundschau , June 13, 1995
personal data
SURNAME Knape, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German motorboat racer
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergisch Gladbach