Sarija Magrupovna Sakirova

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Sarija Magrupowna Sakirowa ( Russian Сария Магруповна Закирова ; born April 10, 1964 in Naberezhnye Tschelny ) is a former Soviet rower and two-time world champion in the eighth .

Athletic career

Sarija Sakirowa won her first world title in 1985 in Hazewinkel , the year after the Soviet eighth also won the World Championships in Nottingham . At the 1987 World Championships in Copenhagen, the Romanians won ahead of the US rowers, Sakirova won the bronze medal with the Soviet eighth. At her first Olympic participation in Seoul in 1988 , Sakirova rowed with the Soviet eighth to fourth place.

Then she switched from oar rowing to scull rowing . At the 1990 World Championships in Tasmania, the double foursome from the GDR won ahead of the Soviet boat with Jelena Chlopzewa , Switlana Masij , Marja Omeljanowitsch and Sarija Sakirowa. The following year Sakirowa competed with Ekaterina Karsten in a double scull . The two rowers won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Vienna . At the end of her career Sakirowa went to the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona with Inna Frolowa in a double scull . The crew took second place behind China in the preliminaries and third place behind Germany and Romania in the semifinals. In the final, the Germans won ahead of the Romanians and the Chinese. Sakirowa and Frolowa finished sixth, fourteen seconds behind the bronze medal.

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Footnotes

  1. Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 507