Michaela Taupe-Traer

Michaela Taupe-Traer (center) at the 2013 award ceremony

Michaela Taupe-Traer (born January 25, 1975 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian rower . She was world champion in the lightweight single in 2013.

Career

The rower from the Nautilus Klagenfurt rowing club began rowing in 1986. In 1991 she finished sixth at the Junior World Championships with the lightweight quadruple scull . She reached her first final in the adult class at the 2000 World Championships when she finished sixth with the lightweight quadruple.

From 2002 Michaela Taupe-Traer mainly competed in the lightweight single. In 2007 she came second in two World Cup regattas. At the 2009 World Championships , Taupe-Traer qualified for the first time with the single for a world championship final and took sixth place. The following year she won the silver medal behind the German Marie-Louise Dräger at the 2010 European Championships in Portugal . In 2011 Taupe-Traer only competed internationally in double sculls, but could not qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games, so she returned to single in 2012. In 2012 she won her first two World Cup regattas in Belgrade and Lucerne, and at the 2012 World Championships she received the silver medal for second place behind the Greek Alexandra Tsiavou . At the European Championships in 2013 she won silver again, this time the Greek Aikaterini Nikolaidou won .

In Chungju , South Korea , Michaela Taupe-Traer achieved her greatest success on August 30, 2013: she won the final in the lightweight single at the 2013 World Championships in front of Nikolaidou and Briton Ruth Walczak .

Awards

• The Carinthian Sports Press Club voted Taupe-Traer three times (2009, 2012, 2013) as "Carinthian Sportswoman of the Year"

Web links

• Michaela Taupe-Traer at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The favorite for Carinthia's athlete of the year is "Mathias Mayer" , online at villach.awm.at