Petra Finke
Petra Finke (born May 7, 1958 ) is a former German rower . Her greatest success was the silver medal in the quadruple scull at the 1978 World Championships.
Athletic career
Petra Finke started for the Neuss rowing club . From 1978 to 1980 the four-four with helmsman won the title three times at the German Championships with the line-up of Anne Dickmann , Veronika Walterfang , Petra Finke, Sabine Reuter and Kathrien Plückhahn .
At the 1977 World Championships in Amsterdam, Sabine Reuter, Veronika Walterfang, Petra Finke, Brigitte Bandura and Birgit Hochgürtel rowed to fourth place, two seconds behind the third-placed Bulgarians. In the following year at the World Championships in 1978 on Lake Karapiro in New Zealand, Anne Dickmann, Veronika Walterfang, Petra Finke, Sabine Reuter and Kathrien Plückhahn took second place, 1.42 seconds behind the Bulgarians. In 1979 Karin Belzer rowed for Dickmann at the World Championships in Bled . The crew took ninth place in this line-up. In 1980 the rowers from the Federal Republic of Germany missed participation in the Olympic rowing regatta because of the Olympic boycott .
Web links
- Petra Finke at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
Footnotes
- ↑ German championships in quadruples at rrk-online
- ↑ 1977 World Cup final in a controlled quad scull at worldrowing.com
- ↑ World Cup final in 1978 controlled sculls at worldrowing.com
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Finke, Petra |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1958 |