Cornelia Pfohl

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Cornelia Pfohl (born February 23, 1971 in Erlabrunn ) is a German archer who won two medals in four Olympic competitions.

In 1990 Cornelia Pfohl was the last GDR archery champion . At the 1991 World Cup she reached eleventh place with the German team, and at the 1992 Olympic Games , the team finished 10th. She won her first international medal at the 1994 European Championships when she, together with Barbara Mensing and Sandra Wagner, came second behind the Russian team took. At the 1995 World Cup, the German team came fourth, while Pfohl came eighth in the individual ranking.

In the next few years Pfohl won medals at all major championships. At the 1996 Olympic Games , the German team with Mensing, Pfohl and Wagner reached the final against the South Koreans and received the silver medal. At the indoor world championships in 1997 Wagner and Pfohl won the title together with Wiebke Nulle before Kazakhstan. At the outdoor world championship in 1997 Pfohl reached the final in the individual competition against the South Korean Kim Du-Ri and won the silver medal. In 1998 she won the European Open Air Championships with Sandra Sachse and Britta Bühren , after she had already won bronze at the European Indoor Championships with Mensing and Sachse.

At Pfohl's third Olympic participation in Sydney in 2000 , the German team met the South Koreans in the semi-finals and lost, in the battle for third place Mensing, Pfohl and Sachse won against the Turkish team. Four years later in Athens in 2004 , Pfohl achieved her best Olympic individual placement with 22nd place, and seventh with the German team.

For winning the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics, she was awarded the silver laurel leaf by Federal President Johannes Rau .

Cornelia Pfohl began her career at BSG Wismut Aue, but then moved to Berlin, where she worked for BSG Bergmann-Borsig and later for the 1st Berlin archers. The trained physiotherapist was a member of the Bundeswehr during her career.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NTV of February 2, 2001: Federal President Rau ... has awarded the medal winners of the 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games the silver laurel leaf.

literature

  • Volker Kluge : Lexicon athletes in the GDR . Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-355-01759-6 , page 344.
  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Atlanta 96. The German Olympic team . Frankfurt am Main 1996, page 100.
  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Athens 2004. The German Olympic team . Frankfurt am Main 2004, page 443.

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personal data
SURNAME Pfohl, Cornelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archer
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Erlabrunn