Kazjaryna Karsten

Ekaterina Karsten , née Chadatowitsch (born June 2, 1972 in Assetschyna , Minskaja Woblasz ), is a former German-Belarusian rowing athlete . She comes from and starts for Belarus , is married to a German and has been training continuously in Germany since 1996, initially in Potsdam and in recent years in Cologne, where she also lives.

She was Olympic champion in the one in 1996 and 2000, besides, she won an Olympic silver medal and two bronze medals. At world championships she won gold in the single in 1997, 1999, from 2005 to 2007 and 2009, as well as four times silver and six times bronze.

Cyrillic ( Belarusian )
	Кацярына Карстэн (Хадатовіч)
Łacinka :	Kaciaryna Karsten (Chadatovič)
Transl. :	Kacjaryna Karstėn (Chadatovič)
Transcr. :	Kazjaryna Karsten (Chadatowitsch)
Cyrillic ( Russian )
	Екатерина Карстен (Ходотович)
Transl .:	Ekaterina Karsten (Chodotovič)
Transcr .:	Ekaterina Karsten (Chodotowitsch)

Athletic career

The early years until 1997

Ekaterina Chadatowitsch started rowing in 1985. At the Junior World Championships in 1990 she won the single title for the Soviet Union . In 1991 she entered the adult class for the first time at world championships . Together with Sarija Sakirowa she won the bronze medal in the double scull . In 1992 she started at the 1992 Olympic Games in the United Team for the Commonwealth of Independent States . The double four with Antonina Selikowitsch , Tetjana Ustjuschanina , Jekaterina Karsten and Jelena Chlopzewa won the bronze medal behind the Germans and the Romanians.

From 1993, Chadatowitsch started for Belarus. At the 1993 World Championships , she finished seventh in a double scull, followed by fifth place in 1994 . At the 1995 World Championships , she competed in one and finished seventh.

The first high point of her career was the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. In addition to Chadatowitsch, the 1994 world champion Trine Hansen from Denmark, the 1995 world champion Maria Brandin from Sweden and the 1995 vice world champion Silken Laumann from Canada qualified for the singles final , Chadatowitsch won with almost three seconds ahead of Laumann and Hansen . In 1997, Chadatowitsch had a perfect season: She won three World Cup regattas and the title at the World Championships .

The decade from 1999 to 2008

After a year off, during which she married and had a daughter, Ekaterina Karsten returned to the regatta courses. After a fourth place in the first World Cup regatta, she won the World Cup in Lucerne. At the 1999 World Championships , she won ahead of the German Katrin Rutschow and the Bulgarian Rumjana Nejkowa . The following year she won the two World Cup regattas in which she participated. At the 2000 Olympic Games she lost to Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski in the semifinals, and in the final there was a photo- finish decision. Ekaterina Karsten won the gold medal with a hundredth of a second ahead of Rumjana Nejkowa, while Katrin Rutschow was less than a second behind as third.

In 2001 Ekaterina Karsten again won the single competition in the three World Cup regattas in which she was at the start. In Munich she won in the single and in the double scull together with Olha Beresnewa took second place behind the Germans Kathrin Boron and Kerstin Kowalski . Karsten also started in both disciplines at the World Championships in Lucerne . In the one, Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski won ahead of the Russian Julija Lewina , Karsten received the bronze medal. The German boat also won the double scull. Behind Boron and Kowalski, silver went to the New Zealand sisters Georgina and Caroline Evers-Swindell , followed by Karsten and Bereznewa. Ekaterina Karsten also competed in two boat classes at the 2002 World Championships . In the one she won the silver medal behind the Bulgarian Nejkowa, in the double fours Inessa Sakharevskaya , Olha Bereznewa, Ekaterina Karsten and Marija Worona received the bronze medal. In the 2003 World Cup, Karsten started in a different boat class at every regatta. At the 2003 World Championships she started in singles and quadruples. In the single, Nejkowa won ahead of Rutschow-Stomporowski and Karsten, in the double fours the Australians won ahead of Ekaterina Karsten, Julija Bitschyk , Olha Bereznewa and Marija Worona. At the 2004 Olympic Games Karsten only started in the single and received the silver medal, but was almost four seconds behind Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski at the finish, Rumjana Nejkowa was third ahead of the Czech Miroslava Knapková .

In the 2005 World Cup season, Ekaterina Karsten only competed in the single and won all three regattas. At the world championships she won in the one before Knapková and the US rower Michelle Guerette and thus won her first title since the Olympic Games in 2000. As in the three world championships from 2001 to 2003, Karsten also started in a second boat class in 2005; in the eighth place the Belarusians took seventh place. In the one, Karsten remained unbeaten both in the World Cup and in the 2006 and 2007 World Championships . After she had won twelve World Cup regattas and three world championships since the 2004 Olympic Games, she only achieved third place in the final at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing behind Rumjana Nejkowa and Michelle Guerette.

The late years from 2009

In 2009 Karsten did not take part in the World Cup. But she won the title at the world championships before the British Katherine Grainger and Miroslava Knapková and at the European championships in 2009 before Knapková and Julija Lewina. In 2010 Karsten won all World Cup regattas and defended her title at the European Championships from Knapková and the Swede Frida Svensson . Her only defeat of the season she suffered in the finals of the 2010 World Championships , when Svensson won by eighteen hundredths of a second ahead of Karsten. In 2011 Karsten won the first two World Cup regattas, but only finished fourth in Lucerne. At the 2011 World Championships , Knapková won two seconds ahead of Karsten, who in turn was two seconds ahead of third-placed New Zealander Emma Twigg . At her sixth Olympic start in Eton in 2012 , Ekaterina Karsten made it to the finals, but with fifth place she missed the medal ranks for the first time.

In 2013 and 2014 Ekaterina Karsten was still active, but did not start in one. At the European Championships and the 2013 World Championships , she won the bronze medal in double sculls together with Julija Bitschyk. In 2014 Karsten won gold at the European Championships in double fours together with Tatjana Kuchta , Julija Bitschyk and Jekaterina Schljupskaja , at the 2014 World Championships the Belarusian double foursome took tenth place. In 2015 Karsten returned to the single and won the World Cup in Bled. At the European Championships she finished fifth with Bitschyk in the double scull. Also at the 2015 World Championships , the two competed in double sculls and finished ninth. Karsten qualified in May 2016 in Lucerne for the single competition at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . At the age of 44, she took eighth place again in her seventh Olympic participation. At the European Championships in 2017 , the British Victoria Thornley won in the singles , Karsten received the silver medal. In 2018 Karsten started again only in team boats. At the world championships , she finished eighth in a double foursome. In 2019, she started again in the one and prepared for the World Cup and her eighth Olympic participation. Karsten took twelfth place in each of her two World Cup appearances. Immediately before the 2019 World Championships , she broke a rib and announced her retirement on August 29.

Web links

• Kazjaryna Karsten at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Kazjaryna Karsten in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ↑ Queen in One Ekaterina Karsten Interview in English on worldrowing.com from September 22, 2011 (accessed January 8, 2017)
2. ↑ Final entry 2000
3. ^ Ekaterina Karsten retires from sport. National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus, August 29, 2019, accessed April 16, 2020 .