Jo Nitsch

Joanna "Jo" Nitsch (* 18th March 1969 ) is a former British lightweight - rower . She was world champion in 1998 and 2001.

Athletic career

Jo Nitsch won her first international medal at the 1995 World Championships in Tampere . In the cast of Robyn Morris , Rachel Woolf , Juliet Machan and Jo Nitsch, the British lightweight four-man without a helmsman won the silver medal behind the boat from the United States and ahead of the Germans. Out of five boats, only these three boats came into the evaluation. A year later, at the 1996 World Championships in Glasgow , all six boats taking part in the finals reached the rating. The Chinese won ahead of Patricia Corless , Robyn Morris, Malindi Myers and Jo Nitsch.

In 1997 Nitsch took part in the 1997 World Championships on Lac d'Aiguebelette in the lightweight quadruple sculls and finished fourth. In 1998 the British lightweight double scull won the World Cup regatta in Hazewinkel with Tegwen Rooks , Jo Nitsch, Sarah Birch and Jane Hall . At the 1998 World Championships in Cologne , Jo Nitsch competed with both the lightweight double quad and the lightweight double without a helmsman . While she finished sixth with the quadruple, she and Juliet Machan won the two-man title in front of the Argentines Elina Urbano and Patricia Conte . In 1999 Jo Nitsch won the World Cup regatta in Lucerne together with Malindi Myers. at the 1999 World Championships Myers competed with Jane Hall. In 2000, Nitsch finished fifth in the lightweight quadruple at the World Championships in Zagreb .

In 2001 Sarah Birch and Jo Nitsch won the World Cup regatta in Munich in the lightweight two-man without a helmsman. At the 2001 World Championships in Lucerne, the two British women won in front of the boat from the United States and the Argentines. In 2002 the British lightweight double scull won the World Cup in Lucerne with Tegwen Rooks, Alison Eastman , Jo Nitsch and Sarah Birch. At the World Championships in Seville , the British rowed to fifth place. A year later, Nitsch missed the A-final at their last World Cup participation in 2003 in Milan and finished seventh with the lightweight quadruple.

Web links

• Jo Nitsch at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )

Footnotes

1. ↑ Final in the lightweight foursome without a helmsman at worldrowing.com