Sabine Jahn

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Sabine Jahn (born June 27, 1953 in Neuruppin , after marrying Sabine Gust ) is a former rower from the German Democratic Republic . In 1976 she won the Olympic silver medal with the double scull.

Sabine Jahn won the GDR championship from 1972 to 1974 with the quadruple scull , and in 1973 the quadruple won the European championship in Moscow. In 1975 she switched to the double scull, where she and Petra Boesler took second place behind the Soviet boat at the World Championships in Nottingham. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, the Bulgarian boat won ahead of Boesler and Jahn. For winning the silver medal, she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

In 1977 after her marriage, Sabine Gust returned to the quadruple scull at the World Championships in Amsterdam. Together with Petra Boesler, Viola Kowalschek , Sybille Tietze and taxwoman Elke Rost , she won the world championship. In 1978 the quadruple finished fourth at the World Cup in New Zealand.

Sabine Jahn started for SC Berlin-Grünau . She was married to the rower Reinhard Gust , but the marriage was later divorced. Dr. Sabine Gust works as a radiologist in Hamburg.

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 , page 184.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).

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personal data
SURNAME Jahn, Sabine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gust, Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rower
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuruppin