Kirsten Wenzel

Kirsten Wenzel (born February 27, 1961 in Leipzig ) is a former helmswoman in rowing from the GDR . In 1980 she won the Olympic medal in a four with a helmsman .

The education student started for the SC DHfK Leipzig and trained with Herta Weissig. At the rowing world championships in 1978 the GDR foursome won with Kersten Neisser , Angelika Noack , Marita Sandig , Ute Skorupski and Kirsten Wenzel. In the same line-up, the boat was GDR champion in 1979 and took second place behind the boat from the Soviet Union at the world championships. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, the four-man competed in a different line-up: Ramona Kapheim , Silvia Fröhlich , Angelika Noack, Romy Saalfeld and Kirsten Wenzel won with a little more than a second ahead of the Bulgarians, the Soviet world champions took third place. For this success she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In 1981, Saalfeld, Sandig, Fröhlich and Wenzel won the title at the GDR championships together with Sabine Portius. At the 1981 World Championships in Munich, Viola Kestler was in the boat for Portius, and the GDR rowers took second place behind the Soviet boat. In 1982 Kirsten Wenzel drove the GDR eighth to world championship bronze . She also succeeded in doing this in 1983 after she married the swimmer Rainer Strohbach . This marriage was later divorced.

literature

• Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 .

Web links

• Kirsten Wenzel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• German successes at world championships
• GDR championships in four

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 3