Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski

Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski, 2012

Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski (born April 2, 1975 in Waren ) is a former German rower and two-time Olympic champion.

Rutschow started rowing at SC Berlin in 1989 . She was significantly influenced in her rowing technique by Peter Kotoll , her trainer from her youth. From 1997 Katrin started for the rowing club at Wannsee and was looked after by the coach Dieter Öhm and from 2002 by Jutta Lau . She ended her rowing career after the 2004 Athens Olympics .

For her sporting success she received the silver bay leaf on March 16, 2005 .

Rutschow studied fashion design at the Lette-Verein vocational school in Berlin and successfully completed her studies in 2001. On December 20, 1999, Katrin Rutschow married Bernhard Stomporowski , who was himself a successful rower, and has two children. Until 2007 she lived in Eglisau (Switzerland). She was employed by the Seeclub Zurich from 2005 to 2007 as a junior and senior trainer and led several teams to the title at the Swiss championships; She also looked after the Swiss lightweight - double foursome for the 2007 World Cup . From November 2007 to July 2008, Katrin worked and lived again in Potsdam as assistant coach to national coach Jutta Lau. After Jutta Lau left the German Rowing Association (DRV) in 2008, Rutschow-Stomporowski was hired by the DRV as a trainee, temporarily working in Potsdam. She has been a trainer at the Rowing Club Hamm since 2018.

International success

• 2004 Olympic Games W1x, gold medal
• 2003 World Rowing Championships 2003 W1x, 2nd place
• 2002 World Rowing Championships 2002 W1x, 3rd place
• 2001 World Rowing Championships 2001 W1x, 1st place
• 2000 Olympic Games W1x, bronze medal
• 1999 World Rowing Championships 1999 W1x, 2nd place
• 1998 World Rowing Championships 1998 W1x, 2nd place
• 1997 World Rowing Championships 1997 W1x, 5th place
• 1996 Olympic Games W4x, gold medal
• 1995 World Rowing Championships 1995 W4x, 1st place
• 1994 World Rowing Championships 1994 W4x, 1st place
• 1993 Junior World Championships JW1x, 1st place
• 1992 Junior World Championships JW1x, 1st place
• 1991 Junior World Championships JW1x, 2nd place

Web links

Commons : Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release of the Office of the Federal President of March 16, 2005: ... the award of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medal winners of the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games ...