Kathrin Boron

Kathrin Boron
Full name	Kathrin Boron-Kölm
nation	DDR , Germany
birthday	4th November 1969
place of birth	Eisenhüttenstadt ,  GDR
size	184 cm
Weight	77 kg
job	Bank clerk
Career
discipline	Skull
society	Potsdam RG
Trainer	Jutta Lau
National squad	since 1988
status	resigned
End of career	2008
Medal table
Olympic medals 4 × 0 × 1 × Rowing World Championships 8 × 5 × 0 × Junior World Championships 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold 1992 Barcelona Double scull gold 1996 Atlanta Double fours gold 2000 Sydney Double scull gold 2004 Athens Double fours bronze 2008 Beijing Double fours  World championships gold 1989 Bled Double fours gold 1990 Tasmania Double scull gold 1991 Vienna Double scull silver 1993 Račice u Štětí Double scull silver 1994 Indianapolis One gold 1997 Aiguebelette-le-Lac Double scull gold 1997 Aiguebelette-le-Lac Double fours gold 1998 Cologne Double fours gold 1999 St. Catharines Double scull gold 2001 Lucerne Double scull silver 2003 Milan Double scull silver 2005 Kaizu Double fours silver 2007 Munich Double fours  Junior World Championships gold 1986 Račice u Štětí Double fours gold 1987 Cologne One
Last change: October 10, 2015

Kathrin Boron , married Kathrin Boron-Kölm (born November 4, 1969 in Eisenhüttenstadt , Frankfurt (Oder) district ) is a four-time Olympic champion and eight-time world champion in rowing , which started first for the GDR and then for Germany.

Career

Kathrin Boron grew up with an older sister in Neuruppin , where she started athletics at the age of 8. Because of health problems, she could not continue to do athletics. Since she really wanted to go to a children's and youth sports school (KJS), she was discovered during a talent inspection for rowing and in 1983 went to the KJS Potsdam and the rowers of the SG Dynamo Potsdam . In addition to numerous GDR titles at junior world championships, she won two gold medals in the children's and youth sector .

Your first year in the senior age began with the handicap of an ankle injury, whatever their start in the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul prevented. Only in the following year did their impressive series of successes begin. She took part in five Summer Olympics, each with outstanding medal wins. At 14 world championships she won 8 world championship titles and 5 silver medals. There are also some German championship titles. Because of her multiple Olympic victories (all in double sculls or double sculls ) she is mentioned in the same breath as Elisabeta Lipă , Marnie McBean and Ekaterina Karsten . She ended her active career with the 2008 Olympic Games . A year later, during the Rowing World Cup in Lucerne, she was honored by the World Rowing Association with its highest award, the Thomas Keller Medal , for her extraordinary rowing career.

Private

After graduating from KJS, Kathrin Boron trained as a bank clerk at Deutsche Bank, AG Potsdam , where she had also been employed since 1994. After the end of her career, she continued to be involved in her clubs Potsdam Rowing Society and Rowing Club Potsdam . At the beginning of 2013, she became a trainer there at a federal youth training center. Since October 1, 2015, she has been working in the athlete support of the Deutsche Sporthilfe in Frankfurt am Main .

Kathrin Boron lived in Caputh ( Schwielowsee municipality ) for the last few years and is a single mother of a daughter (* 2002). She has lived near Frankfurt am Main since July 2015 and is a member of a local rowing club there.

Honors

• 1992: Bambi
• 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004: Silver bay leaf
• 2000, 2001: Sportswoman of the year for the state of Brandenburg
• 2001: Golden Band of the Sports Press
• 2004: Champion of the year
• 2005: Order of Merit of the State of Brandenburg
• 2008: Prize of the Federal Minister of the Interior for Tolerance and Fair Play in Sport
• 2009: Thomas Keller Medal from the World Rowing Association

See also

• List of the most successful summer Olympians

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Märkische Allgemeine , December 16, 2013, p. 18

Web links

• Official website
• Kathrin Boron at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Kathrin Boron in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )