Marita Scholz
Marita Scholz (born June 25, 1977 in Dresden ) is a former German rower .
Life
Marita Scholz was 1994 junior world champion in the quadruple sculls and 1995 in the double sculls . In 1996 she took second place with the double quad at the Nations Cup , the predecessor competition to the U23 World Championships, and in 1997 she won the German double quad. In 1998 she competed with the four-man without a helmsman and took sixth place at the World Championships in Cologne . In 1999 she won the Nations Cup with the four without a helmsman. At the World Championships in St. Catharines won Sandra Goldbach , Marita Scholz and Mira and Sonja van Daelen the silver medal behind the White Russians. In 2001 Scholz returned to the quad scull and won together with Peggy Waleska , Manuela Lutze and Manja Kowalski at the World Championships in Lucerne in front of the boats from New Zealand and the United States. In the line-up of Peggy Waleska, Marita Scholz, Manuela Lutze and Kerstin Kowalski , the German double foursome also won the 2002 World Championships in Seville . In 2003 at the World Championships in Milan , the double scull received bronze in the same line-up as in the previous year behind the boats from Australia and Belarus. In 2004, Marita Scholz went to the Olympic Games in Athens as a substitute rower , but did not appear.
In 1999 Marita Scholz was German champion in the four without a helmsman. In 2002 and 2003, Marita Scholz was German champion in double fours. She started for the Dresden Rowing Club in 1902 until 2001 and from 2002 for the Ratzeburger RC .
Marita Scholz is a horticultural engineer, but was in a sports promotion group of the German armed forces during her career. There she married a soldier who was later on with the Bundeswehr on missions abroad and who returned with a post-traumatic stress disorder . She wrote the book Home Front about the consequences for living together with her husband and two children . My life with a war veteran. The book was published by Herder-Verlag in 2012.
Web links
- Marita Scholz at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
- Portrait on rudern.de
- Interview on her book by Dani Parthum from March 20, 2012 on sakida.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ German champions in foursome without at rrk-online.de (website of the Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klub 08)
- ↑ German champions in double fours at rrk-online.de (website of the Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klub 08)
- ↑ German champions in single at rrk-online.de (website of the Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klub 08)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scholz, Marita |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |