Elizabeth Craig (rower)

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Marion Elizabeth "Betty" Craig , after marriage to Eaton , (born September 26, 1957 in Brockville ) is a former Canadian rower . She won an Olympic silver medal and five medals at world championships.

Athletic career

Elizabeth Craig began rowing at Brockville RC in 1973 . At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, women's rowing competitions were on the program for the first time. Craig competed with Tricia Smith in two without a helmsman . The two won their preliminary run and were thus qualified for the final, in the final the two took fifth place, almost six seconds behind the bronze medal.

From 1977 Elizabeth Craig rowed with Susan Antoft in twos. At the World Championships in Amstelveen, the two won the bronze medal behind the Olympic winners Sabine Dähne and Angelika Noack from the GDR and Karin Abma and Joke Dierdorp from the Netherlands. In the following year, Craig and Antoft took second place at the World Championships on Lake Karapiro in New Zealand, behind Cornelia Klier and Ute Steindorf from the GDR and ahead of Abma and Dierdorp. In 1979 Elizabeth Craig rowed in a foursome with helmswoman and took seventh place at the World Championships in Bled. 1980 Elizabeth Craig missed her second Olympic participation as Canada because of the Olympic boycott not at the Olympic Games in Moscow participated.

From 1981 Tricia Smith and Elizabeth Craig rowed in the Canadian two without a helmsman. At the 1981 World Championships in Munich, Iris Rudolph and Sigrid Anders from the GDR won ahead of the Canadians, and Romanians Rodica Arba-Puşcatu and Elena Horvat won bronze almost five seconds behind . In 1982, Silvia Fröhlich and Marita Sandig from the GDR won the World Championships in Lucerne, ahead of Poles Małgorzata Dłużewska and Czesława Kościańska , followed by Smith and Craig who won the bronze medal. The following year, Silvia Fröhlich and Marita Gasch-Sandig also won the 1983 World Championships in Duisburg. Behind Rodica Arba and Elena Horvat, Smith and Craig received the bronze medal like in 1982. The rowers from the GDR had won four titles at the world championships in 1983, the other two gold medals went to rowers from the Soviet Union. The GDR and the Soviet Union did not take part in the 1984 Olympic Games because of their Olympic boycott. In the Olympic rowing regatta the rowers from Romania dominated with five gold medals. In the two without a helmsman, Arba and Horvat won with three and a half seconds ahead of Smith and Craig.

Elizabeth Craig and Tricia Smith finished eighth again in 1987 at the World Championships . Then the 1.70 m tall Craig resigned for good.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 561f
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 1019
personal data
SURNAME Craig, Elizabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Craig, Marion Elizabeth (full name); Craig, Betty (short name); Eaton, Marion Elizabeth (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian rower
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Brockville