Petra Grabowski

Petra Grabowski
Full name	Petra Grabowski (-Borzym)
nation	German Democratic Republic of Germany
birthday	January 31, 1952
place of birth	Brandenburg an der Havel ,  GDR
size	173 cm
Weight	70 kg
job	Graduated sports teacher
Career
discipline	Canoe racing
Boat class	Kayak ( K1 , K2 , K4 )
society	SC Potsdam ASK Forward Potsdam
Trainer	Helmut Setzkorn
National squad	since 1968
status	resigned
End of career	1976
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 3 × 2 × GDR championships 7 × 5 × 2 ×
Olympic games silver Munich 1972 K2 500 m Canoe racing world championships bronze 1970 Copenhagen K2 500 m silver 1970 Copenhagen K4 500 m silver 1971 Belgrade K2 500 m bronze 1971 Belgrade K4 500 m silver 1973 Tampere K1 500 m gold 1973 Tampere K2 500 m
last change: August 29, 2012

Petra Grabowski , married Borzym (born January 31, 1952 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) is a former German canoeist .

Athletic career

Petra Grabowski comes from a family who are enthusiastic about water sports. At the age of 11 she started canoeing in her parents' association, the BSG Einheit Brandenburg . Because of her achievements, she attended the children's and youth sports school in Brandenburg from 1967 . In 1968 she was delegated to SC Potsdam , where she was GDR champion in K4 in the same year. The SC Potsdam was dissolved in 1969 and its canoe section was incorporated into the ASK Vorwärts Potsdam .

At ASK Vorwärts Potsdam Grabowski was trained by Helmut Setzkorn . Since 1968 she has formed a team in K2 with the daughter of ASK trainer Petra Setzkorn and they achieved the title of runner-up in K2 in 1968. At the age of 16, she barely missed participation in the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico . In 1969 the girls won silver as GDR champions in K2 at the Junior World Championships and then missed a medal at the Elite World Championships when they came fourth. In the following year, the duo was again GDR champions and third in the world championship. They were also used in the K4 , with which they won silver. After poor performance in single and double by Setzkorn - at the GDR championships, Setzkorn / Grabowski missed qualifying for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich as runner-up behind Ilse Kaschube and Carola Zirzow - there were changes in the line-up. In addition, Petra Setzkorn was seen in talks with her West Berlin competitor Renate Breuer , which meant that Setzkorn, a member of the army, was excluded from the GDR national team. Grabowski started now with Kashube and took part in the games with this. Behind Lyudmila Pinajewa and Yekaterina Kuryschko ( Soviet Union ) they won the silver medal. In 1973 they became world champions and GDR champions together. After winning a medal at the Olympic Games, she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze in 1972 ; In 1974 she received this medal again.

In K1 Grabowski won the championship title in 1973 and was runner-up in 1972 and 1976. In the other boat classes she had the problem of not having equal partners in Potsdam. She won her GDR championship medals, including two championship titles in K4, mostly with athletes from SC Neubrandenburg . After she narrowly failed in qualifying for the Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976 , she ended her sports career.

Profession and private life

In Potsdam, Grabowski completed an apprenticeship as a mechanical draftswoman alongside his training until 1970 . She then studied at the Potsdam University of Education and graduated in 1975 as a certified sports teacher . After a year of training , she was the support point manager at the German University of Physical Culture until 1981 , an activity that she gave up for family reasons. For her work as a sports teacher at an auxiliary school in Werder (Havel) , she completed a postgraduate course to work with children with learning disabilities. In 1993 she stopped there to support her husband in the joint sports shop in Brandenburg an der Havel . Grabowski was injured there in 1997 by several pistol shots. In 2011 the family closed the business.

In 1972, after the Olympic Games, Grabowski married the rower Hans-Joachim Borzym , who was also one of the medalists in Munich. The family lives in Werder (Havel) .

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. 125.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} What is Petra Borzym doing? ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
2. ↑ Exclusion due to western contacts
3. ^ GDR championships
4. ^ Portrait of Petra Borzym

Web links

• Petra Grabowski in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )