Judith Zeidler

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Judith Zeidler , married name: Judith Ungemach, (born May 11, 1968 in Beeskow ) is a former rower from the German Democratic Republic . In 1988 she won the Olympic gold medal in eighth place .

Life

Judith Zeidler from SC Dynamo Berlin was still a sculler in the youth division , in 1984 and 1986 she was junior world champion with the double scull . In 1988 she switched to the belt boats and together with Ramona Balthasar was GDR runner-up in a two-man championship . For the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 they both switched to the GDR eighth, in Seoul the eighth, driven by Daniela Neunast, won the line-up of Annegret Strauch , Judith Zeidler, Kathrin Haacker , Ute Wild , Anja Kluge , Ramona Balthasar, Beatrix Schröer and Ute Pole in front of the boats from Romania and China. For this victory she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold.

In 1989 Zeidler returned to the two and won the World Championships in Bled with Kathrin Haacker. In 1990 SC Dynamo Berlin was only called SC Berlin . At the last appearance of the national rowing team at the world championship on Lake Barrington in Tasmania, Haacker and Zeidler rowed together with Antje Frank and Jeannette Barth in a purely Berlin four without a helmsman . In 1991 Judith Zeidler took part in the World Cup in Vienna for reunified Germany. The four was composed of all German, with the two East Berliners Haacker and Zeidler rowed Cerstin Petersmann from Dortmund and Gabriele Mehl from Essen; together they won the bronze medal. Judith Zeidler also won bronze at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona.

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

Judith Zeidler married the Dortmund rower Matthias Ungemach . The family now lives in Australia with their two sons and one daughter.

literature

  • Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf and 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. Neues Deutschland , 12./13. November 1988, p. 4
  2. 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 ...

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