Jana Sorgers-Rau

Jana Sorgers-Rau (born Sorgers, born August 4, 1967 in Neubrandenburg ) is a two-time Olympic champion and nine-time world champion in rowing . She won the gold medal in Seoul in 1988 in a double foursome in the team of the then GDR and repeated this win eight years later in Atlanta for Germany .

Life

For her Olympic victory in Seoul in 1988, Sorgers-Rau was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold. For her Olympic victory in Atlanta in 1996, Jana Sorgers was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf in the same year.

Sorgers-Rau ended her career in 1996 and was the first woman rower to be awarded the highest honor in rowing - the Thomas Keller Medal - by the World Rowing Association FISA in 1997 . Jana Sorgers is married to the rower and current board member of the Deutsche Sporthilfe Foundation, Oliver Rau . The couple have two grown daughters (twins). Jana Sorgers-Rau works as a personal trainer in an EMS studio in Bremen.

Greatest successes

• 1988 Olympic champion (Seoul) in double fours
• 1996 Olympic champion (Atlanta) in double fours

• 1984 Junior World Champion (Jönköping) in quadruples
• 1985 Junior World Champion (Brandenburg) in double sculls

• 1986 World Champion (Nottingham) in four-four
• 1987 World Champion (Copenhagen) in four-four
• 1989 world champion (Bled) in double sculls
• 1990 World Champion (Tasmania) in four-four
• 1991 World Champion (Vienna) in four-four
• 1994 World Champion (Indianapolis) in four-four
• 1995 World Champion (Tampere) in four-four

Individual evidence

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

Web links

• Jana Sorgers-Rau in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Jana Sorgers-Rau at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )