Marina Wilke

Marina Wilke (born February 28, 1958 in Berlin ) is a former German rower .

Marina Wilke started for SC Berlin-Grünau and was trained by Klaus-Dieter Bähr. Between 1975 and 1980, Wilke was always able to qualify for the major events of the year with her boats, apart from 1979, where she only came second with her boat at the GDR championships. In 1975 the rowing eight of the GDR became world champion with Wilke as helmsman . A year later she was able to celebrate the Olympic victory in Montreal at the Olympic Games with eighth place . In 1977 she competed in the four-man world championships with a helmsman and won the title. In 1978 she came back to eighth and became vice world champion. At the Summer Olympics in 1980 from Moscow , she won her second Olympic gold with the eighth.

Wilke married the Olympic rowing champion Harald Jahresling and went to Australia with him when he became the sports director of the rowing association there in 1991 . After her divorce , she returned to Germany. In 1976 and 1980 she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.

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 , p. 425.

Web links

• Marina Wilke in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marina Wilke in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on May 20, 2020.
2. ↑ 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). 
3. ↑ Neues Deutschland, August 22, 1980, p. 3