Sarmīte Stone

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Sarmīte Stone (born May 30, 1963 in Riga , Latvian SSR ) is a former Soviet rower and two-time world champion in eight .

Athletic career

The 1.80 m tall Sarmīte Stone won her first world championship title in 1982 in Lucerne , and the following year the Soviet eighth also won the world championships in Duisburg . At the 1986 World Championships in Nottingham, she finished fourth in the four with helmswoman . In 1987 she returned to the eighth. At the 1987 World Championships in Copenhagen the Romanians won ahead of the US rowers, Stone won the bronze medal with the Soviet eighth. When she first took part in the Olympics in Seoul in 1988 , Sarmīte Stone rowed with Marina Smorodina in twos without a helmsman . The two took fourth place in the preliminary run and reached the final with a second place in the hope run behind New Zealand. There the two Soviet rowers finished fifth, 17 seconds behind the third-placed New Zealanders.

In 1989 Stone and Smorodina rowed at the World Championships in Bled in a foursome without a helmsman , as the winners of the B-final, the Soviet foursome took seventh place. In 1991 Stone returned to the Soviet eight. At the World Championships in Vienna , the Soviet eighth won the silver medal behind the Canadians with half a second. At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona no more Soviet team appeared, instead the United Team represented most of the successor states of the Soviet Union. The eighth of the United Team with Sarmīte Stone took second place behind the German boat in the preliminary run and qualified as the fourth boat of the repechage for the final. There the crew finished fourth, almost two seconds behind the third-placed Germans.

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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. 184
  2. ↑ eight finals in 1991 at worldrowing.com
  3. ↑ Latvia was there with its own team , but Stone started as a member of Spartak Riga in eighth of the United Team.
  4. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 509f
personal data
SURNAME Stone, Sarmīte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet rower
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga , Latvian SSR