Liane Buhr

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Liane Buhr (born March 11, 1956 in Pritzwalk as Liane Weigelt ) is a former rower from the GDR . She won Olympic gold in double fours in 1976 and 1980 .

Life

Liane Weigelt won the 1972 Spartakiade as a helmsman with the controlled foursome and with the eighth . In 1973 she drove the eighth of SG Dynamo Potsdam to third place at the GDR championships. At the 1974 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne, women's competitions were on the program for the first time. Sybille Tietze , Jutta Lau , Ursula Wagner , Roswietha Reichel and Liane Weigelt were the helmsmen in the steered quadruple sculls , these five rowers won the first world championship in this boat class. In 1975 Anke Grünberg rowed for Sybille Tietze, Ursula Wagner and Roswietha Reichel were called Ursula Unger and Roswietha Zobelt after their marriage . Grünberg, Lau, Unger, Zobelt and Weigelt won the GDR championships and also the world championships in Nottingham. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, women's rowing had its Olympic premiere. Ursula Unger had been replaced by Viola Poley , Anke Grünberg was called Anke Borchmann after marriage . The GDR double scull with Borchmann, Lau, Poley, Zobelt and Weigelt won the Olympic Games, and so Liane Weigelt had won two gold medals at world championships and one at the Olympic Games at the age of 20.

After the Olympic victory, Liane Weigelt interrupted her athletic career, began studying medicine and got married. At the GDR championships in 1978 she drove the double scull with Jutta Lau and Sybille Tietze only to second place behind the boat with Anke Borchmann and Roswietha Zobelt. After the GDR scull boats had only won a medal at the 1978 World Championships, in 1979 the quadruple scull was put together with experienced rowers, in which Liane Buhr was again the helmsman. Sybille Tietze, Christine Röpke , Jutta Lau and Roswietha Zobelt won the GDR championships and were also successful at the world championships in Bled . The following year, Jutta Ploch was on the boat for Christine Röpke, Sybille Tietze was now Sybille Reinhardt . In the line-up of Sybille Reinhardt, Jutta Ploch, Jutta Lau, Roswietha Zobelt and Liane Buhr, the quadruple also won the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, for Lau, Zobelt and Buhr it was the second Olympic victory.

Liane Buhr is a general practitioner in Fichtenwalde .

Awards (selection)

  • 1974 - Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
  • 1976 - Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver
  • 1980 - Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ GDR championships in the eighth on RRK-Online.de
  2. ^ GDR championships in quadruples on RRK-Online.de
  3. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In: New Germany . ZEFYS newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (free registration required).
personal data
SURNAME Boo, liana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weigelt, Liana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rower
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Pritzwalk