Martina Boesler

Martina Boesler (born June 18, 1957 in Berlin , after marriage to Martina Wieduwilt , later Martina Kirchner ) is a former rower from the German Democratic Republic , in 1980 she was Olympic champion in eighth .

Martina Boesler from SC Berlin-Grünau was in the East German eighth at the 1979 World Rowing Championships in Bled, which finished second behind the Soviet eighth. Boesler was also among the eighth in the GDR at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, with Martina Boesler, Kersten Neisser , Christiane Köpke , Birgit Schütz , Gabriele Kühn , Ilona Richter , Marita Sandig , Karin Metze and helmswoman Marina Wilke with just under a second rowed the Olympic victory before the Soviet eight. For this sporting success she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In 1981 Boesler finished fifth at the World Championships in Munich with the GDR eighth.

After her marriage to the rower Bert Wieduwilt, she ended her sporting career and had a son in 1982 and a daughter in 1984; In 1985 her husband died in a traffic accident. Until 1990 she worked as a foreman in DEFA's Berlin film printing plant , later she retrained to become a secretary.

Martina's aunt Renate Boesler won four European championship titles in rowing in the 1960s and is married to Olympic champion Wolfgang Gunkel, Martina's sister Petra Boesler finished second in rowing in 1976.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Lexicon athletes in the GDR. New life, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-355-01759-6 .

Web links

• Martina Boesler in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• German successes at world championships

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 3