Manuela Lutze

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Manuela Lutze (born March 20, 1974 in Blankenburg (Harz) ) is a former German rowing athlete .

Life

She lived in Magdeburg since 1987 and came to rowing through athletics. After her Olympic debut in Atlanta in 1996 in double sculls (5th place), Lutze specialized in double sculls. She was world champion in this boat five times (1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002) and once third (2003).

At the Summer Olympics in 2000 in Sydney and 2004 in Athens , she was Olympic champion in each sculls. After 2004, she retired, but started rowing again in 2006 and won the bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Games .

On March 16, 2005, she received the Silver Laurel Leaf for her athletic achievements .

Your home club is the RC Magdeburg. She worked as a tax advisor at PricewaterhouseCoopers . The city of Blankenburg made Lutze an honorary citizen.

literature

  • Rupert Kaiser: Olympia Almanach. Stories, numbers, pictures. (From Athens 1896 to Athens 2004). Agon-Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-246-7 .
  • National Olympic Committee for Germany (Ed.): Athens 2004. The German Olympic Team . Deutsche Sport-Marketing GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ | Press release of the Office of the Federal President of March 16, 2005 ... the awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medal winners of the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games ...
  2. ↑ Blankenburger Official Journal , September 29, 2007, p. 5

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personal data
SURNAME Lutze, Manuela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rower
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Blankenburg (Harz)