Marie-Louise Dräger

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Marie-Louise Dräger (left) with Ronja Fini Sturm at the European Rowing Championship 2016

Marie-Louise Dräger (born April 11, 1981 in Lübeck ) is a German rower who was world champion in 2003 and 2005 in lightweight double sculls and in 2010 in lightweight double sculls and lightweight singles.

Athletic career

Dräger started in 1999 for the first time in the Nations Cup , the unofficial U23 world championships. Together with Karin Maier , she became vice world champion in this age group. In 2001 she started after her first use in the Rowing World Cup in the lightweight single at the World Championships in Lucerne and took tenth place.

The following year she competed with Daniela Reimer at the U23 world championships in lightweight double sculls and was again U23 runner-up. Then she started at the World Championships in Seville in the lightweight single, where she again missed the finals, but came in seventh place by winning the B final.

She achieved her first major success at the 2003 World Championships in Milan when she and Claudia Blasberg became world champion in the lightweight double scull. At the Olympic Games in Athens she was the substitute rower for the light double sculls from Blasberg and Reimer. For the World Championships in Gifu 2005, Dräger moved back to Daniela Reimer in the double scull and became world champion again. In the following year, the team could only occupy the disappointing tenth place at the World Championships in Eton .

In 2007, Dräger competed at the World Championships in Munich in an easy double scull with Berit Carow and won bronze. This line-up also won the overall World Cup in 2008, but missed the hoped-for medal with fourth place at the Olympic Games in Beijing .

In 2009 Dräger rowed again in double sculls, this time with the young Anja Noske , after a successful World Cup season they achieved fourth place in the final of the World Championships in Poznan .

In 2010, Dräger won the German championships in the lightweight single for the fifth time in a row . No other athlete has been able to win so often so far. In the 2010 season, Dräger no longer rowed in double sculls, but in easy single and easy double sculls. After a successful World Cup season, she became European champion in this boat class in September 2010. On November 5th, 2010 she became world champion in the lightweight quadruple scull with Anja Noske, Daniela Reimer and Lena Müller.

Since Lena Müller and Anja Noske prevailed in the association's internal qualification in the lightweight double scull in 2012 , Dräger switched to the one of the open weight class. After she was barely defeated by Peggy Waleska at the World Cup in Munich , she prevailed against Julia Lier and Nina Wengert in the decisive elimination competition in Essen, in which Waleska had not even started . In the 2012 Olympic rowing regatta , she finally finished 11th in the B final.

Dräger starts for the ORC Rostock . After the birth of her first child, she initially interrupted her career in July 2013. It started its comeback in autumn 2013 and was able to convince in the 2014 season with a second place at the German Small Boat Championships. In 2015 and 2016 , she won the silver medal at the European Championships with Ronja Fini Sturm in the lightweight double scull. At the 2016 Olympic Games , Dräger and Sturm achieved eleventh place.

In 2019 she became world champion in the lightweight single at the world championships in Ottensheim .

International success

  • 1999: 2nd place U23 world championships in lightweight double sculls
  • 2001: 10th place in the world championships in the lightweight single
  • 2002: 2nd place U23 world championships in lightweight double sculls
  • 2002: 7th place in the world championships in the lightweight single
  • 2003: 1st place in the world championships in lightweight double sculls
  • 2005: 1st place in the world championships in lightweight double sculls
  • 2006: 10th place in the world championships in lightweight double sculls
  • 2007: 3rd place in the world championships in lightweight double sculls
  • 2008: 4th place Olympic Games in lightweight double sculls
  • 2009: 4th place in the world championships in lightweight double sculls
  • 2010: 1st place European championships in the lightweight single
  • 2010: 1st place world championships in lightweight singles and lightweight quadruples
  • 2011: 11th place in the world championships in lightweight double sculls
  • 2012: 11th place Olympic Games in one
  • 2015: 2nd place European championships in lightweight double sculls
  • 2016: 2nd place European championships in lightweight double sculls
  • 2016: 11th place in the Olympic Games lightweight double scull
  • 2019: 1st place world championships in lightweight single

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver Quickert: Marie-Louise Dräger wins a single elimination for the Olympics. In: rudern.de. German Rowing Association, June 24, 2012, accessed on March 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Dräger, Marie-Louise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rower
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck