Kerstin Kowalski

Kerstin Kowalski
nation	Germany
birthday	January 25, 1976
place of birth	Potsdam ,  GDR
size	176 cm
Weight	65 kg
job	Nurse
Career
discipline	Row , skull
society	Potsdam Rowing Society
Trainer	Jutta Lau
National squad	since 1994
status	resigned
End of career	2004
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 3 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold 2000 Sydney Double fours gold 2004 Athens Double fours  World championships gold 1999 St. Catherines Double fours gold 2001 Lucerne Double scull gold 2002 Seville Double fours bronze 2003 Milan Double fours  U23 world championships gold 1995 Double scull gold 1996 Double scull gold 1997 Double fours  Junior World Championships gold 1994 Munich Double fours
Last change: January 11, 2016

Kerstin Kowalski , formerly Kerstin El-Qalqili (born January 25, 1976 in Potsdam-Babelsberg ) is a former German rower .

At the Summer Olympics in 2000 and 2004 , she won gold with the double foursome. She and her twin sister Manja Kowalski won the Sydney 2000 gold medal . In addition, Kerstin El-Qalqili was world champion at the open world championships in 1999, 2001 and 2002 (she won the junior world championships in 1994, those of the under-23s in 1995, 1996 and 1997). During her career, she mostly rowed gold medals at world championship races, only at her world championship race in Milan in 2003 it was only enough for the bronze medal in quadruples. She is considered the best batting woman in the scull area worldwide .

For her athletic achievements she received the Silver Laurel Leaf on February 2, 2001 on the Petersberg . At the award ceremony by Federal President Johannes Rau , she gave the acceptance speech for the decorated medal winners of the Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games.

She is the former wife of the rower Iradj El-Qalqili .

Web links

• Kerstin Kowalski in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Kerstin Kowalski at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Olympic champion at rrk-online.de
• World champion at rrk-online.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dirk Wende: There is a relaxed atmosphere at the Chancellor's table. In: www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de. Bonner General-Anzeiger , February 2, 2001, accessed on December 7, 2016 : “Kerstin Kowalski, who had won gold in a double foursome, thanked the athletes:“ We know that the federal government only uses every mark once in sport can spend. But the Sydney games were the greatest motivation for us on the way to Athens 2004. ""