Ramona Balthasar

Ramona Balthasar
nation	GDR
birthday	January 9, 1964
place of birth	Forst ,  GDR
size	177 cm
Weight	71 kg
Career
discipline	Eighth
society	SG Dynamo Potsdam (until 1985) SC Dynamo Berlin (from 1985)
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold 1988 Seoul Eighth  World championships gold 1985 Mechelen Double fours silver 1989 Bled Eighth bronze 1990 Tasmania Eighth

Ramona Balthasar , after marriage to Ramona Franz , (born January 9, 1964 in Forst ) is a former German rower . In 1988 she won the Olympic gold medal in eighth place .

Career

Ramona Balthasar started at SG Dynamo Potsdam and moved to SC Dynamo Berlin in 1985 . In 1984 she was scheduled for the GDR's Olympic selection, but could not compete because of the Olympic boycott. At the rowing regatta on the Rotsee near Lucerne, she and Birgit Peter took third place in the double scull . In 1985 Peter and Balthasar switched to the double fours and won the 1985 World Rowing Championships in Bled together with Jutta Hampe and Kristina Mundt .

After the skull did not come more into the East German national team, Ramona Balthasar moved to the belt boats . In 1988 at the Olympic Summer Games in Seoul , the eighth piloted by Daniela Neunast won the line-up of Annegret Strauch , Judith Zeidler , Kathrin Haacker , Ute Wild , Anja Kluge , Ramona Balthasar, Beatrix Schröer and Ute Stange in front of the boats from Romania and China. In 1989 the Romanian eighth won the world championship, Ramona Balthasar won the silver medal with the GDR eighth.

For his Olympic victory in 1988, Balthasar was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold. She also received this award in 1986.

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 .

Web links

• Ramona Balthasar in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Ramona Balthasar at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database ) and Ramona Franz at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• German successes at world championships

Individual evidence

1. ↑ result of the finals in W4X at the rudder's World Cup 1985 near Mechelen, Belgium. World Rowing Association, accessed on January 15, 2015 . 
2. ^ Result of the final in the W8 + at the World Rowing Championships 1989 in Bled, Yugoslavia. World Rowing Association, accessed on January 15, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Neues Deutschland , 12./13. November 1988, p. 4
4. ↑ Neues Deutschland, October 15, 1986, p. 7.