Karen Kraft

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Karen Kraft , after marriage to Karen Rigsby , (born May 3, 1969 in San Mateo , California ) is an American rower who won two Olympic medals.

Athletic career

The 1.77 m tall Karen Kraft began rowing at the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo with the Mustangs rowing team there . At the 1995 World Championships , she and Melissa Schwen competed in twos without a helmsman . The two Americans won the silver medal behind the Australians Kate Slatter and Megan Still . At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, both the Australians and the Americans won their preliminary run. In the semifinals, Kraft and Schwen won with a three second lead over the Australians, in the final Still and Slatter won with a lead of 39 hundredths of a second.

It wasn't until 2000 that Karen Kraft and Melissa Ryan, as they were called after their marriage, competed internationally again. After finishing fifth at the Rowing World Cup in Lucerne, the two rowed together at the Olympic Games . After they had qualified for the final via the repechage , the Americans fought in the final against Kate Slatter and her new partner Rachael Taylor for the medals behind the Romanians Georgeta Damian and Doina Ignat . The Romanians won by one and a half seconds, the Australians 44 hundredths of a second ahead of Kraft and Ryan.

Karen Rigsby graduated as a PE teacher and then worked as an assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin . Currently (as of 2015) she works as a yoga teacher in Madison, Wisconsin.

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  1. ↑ Karen Rigsby as a yoga teacher (accessed December 23, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Kraft, Karen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rigsby, Karen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rower
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd May 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH San Mateo , California