Daniela Neunast

The GDR champion in the foursome with tax woman from 1985 from right to left: Carola Lichey , Steffi Götzelt , Jutta Abromeit , Kerstin Spittler and tax woman Daniela Neunast

Daniela Neunast (* 19th September 1966 in Potsdam ) is a former coxswain in rowing from the German Democratic Republic . In 1988 she won the Olympic gold medal in eighth place .

Daniela Neunast started at SG Dynamo Potsdam and after 1990 moved to the rowing club Hansa von 1898 in Dortmund. In 1982 she was GDR champion with a Potsdam four-man and fourth at the Junior World Championships . In 1983 she won the junior world championship title in a foursome and in 1984 in an eighth. With the four in the line-up of Carola Lichey , Steffi Götzelt , Jutta Abromeit and Kerstin Spittler , helmsman Neunast won both the GDR championship and the world championship in the adult class in 1985. In 1986, Neunast was in the GDR eighth and won silver at the World Cup behind the boat from the Soviet Union. In 1987, the eighth finished fourth. At the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, controlled by her East German eight won in the occupation Annegret Strauch , Judith Zeidler , Kathrin Haacker , Ute Wild , Anja Kluge , Ramona Balthasar , Beatrix Schroer and Ute rod before the boats from Romania and China. In 1989 the GDR eighth with nine branches on the ropes took second place behind world champion Romania.

After that, Daniela Neunast took a baby break and returned for the 1992 Olympic season. In the German eighth that competed in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , five rowers from the gold eighth of the GDR from 1988 sat with Annegret Strauch, Kathrin Haacker, Ute Wagner-Stange, Judith Zeidler and Daniela Neunast; the German boat won bronze in Barcelona behind the Canadians and Romanians. At the 1993 World Cup, Romania and the USA were ahead of the German eighth.

For this she was awarded the silver bay leaf on June 23, 1993 .

For her Olympic victory in Seoul in 1988, Neunast was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold.

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 .
• National Olympic Committee for Germany: Barcelona 1992. The German Olympic team . Frankfurt am Main 1992

Individual evidence

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 ...
2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , 12./13. November 1988, p. 4

Web links

• German successes at world championships
• Daniela Neunast in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )