Sabine Eichenberger

Sabine Eichenberger (born September 25, 1968 ) is a Swiss canoeist in Brugg in the canton of Aargau and the most successful canoeist in Switzerland to date.

Career

Sabine Eichenberger is a member of the Brugg Canoe Club and also belongs to the Dragon Boat Club in Basel. Since the 1990s she has successfully participated in many international competitions in several disciplines of kayak and canoe competition . For Swiss Canoe , the Swiss Canoe Association founded in Brugg in 1925 , she mainly competes in single kayaks and single canoe races in the white water run and in the canoe marathon .

She qualified with a four-man kayak for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , where she won the silver medal in the 500 meter run with Ingrid Haralamow , Daniela Baumer and Gabi Müller .

Eichenberger achieved first place several times in the overall canoe world cup (1998, 1999, 2007, 2012 and 2014) and second place three times (2004, 2008 and 2016). In 2015 she achieved the overall victory of the world series in the canoe marathon.

At the Swiss Canoe Championships, Sabine Eichenberger won the classic downhill twenty times, eight times in the sprint and six times in the team canoe category. She was Swiss champion seven times in the single kayak regatta and seven times in the two-person kayak.

In the Swiss Canoe Association, Sabine Eichenberger is a member of the Dragon Boat Commission . Professionally, she is employed by the community of Riniken , Canton Aargau.

Successes (selection)

2016
- International white water race, Fulda: first place
- White water racing world championships 2016 , Banja Luka: third place in the single-canoe
- World Cup race, Savinja: first place
2015
- Kayak sprint, Fulda: first place
- European championships white water descent , Banja Luka: second place single-canoe and third place single-kayak
- European Dragon Boat Championships: first place
- ICF marathon series: first place
- Sprint, Murau: first place
2014
- World Championships, Sondrio, Adige: second place
- Dragon Boat World Championships, 3rd place over 2000 meters (with Marius Bättig, Andreas Burkhart, Michel Eichenberger, Sandro Galli, Roger Gross, Martin Scheuber)
2013
- Canoe Marathon World Championships: second place
- White Water Racing World Championships , Solkan: third place
- European championships , Canadian team competition (with Chantal Abgottspon and Melanie Mathys): second place
2012
- Canoe marathon, Cesky Crumlov: second place
- White Water Racing World Championships , Isère: third place
2011
- European Championships, Kraljevo: first place
2008
- Canoe World Championships , Ivrea, Dora Baltea: first place
2006
- World Championships , Karlsbad, Tepla: third place
- Canoe marathon Ardèche: first place
2004
- White water racing world championships , Loisach: second place
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen: first place
2001
- World Championships, Sesia: third place
1997
- European Championships, Isère: first place
1996
- Atlanta Summer Olympics, Canadians Four: Second place
1991
- World Championships, Soça, Team: third place