Stefani Werremeier

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Stefani Werremeier (born October 17, 1968 in Osnabrück ) is a former German rower who won an Olympic silver medal in 1992.

Stefani Werremeier began her career at the Osnabrück Rowing Club , after the 1992 Olympic Games she moved to the Saarbrücken rowing club . In 1986 she finished second at the Junior World Championships with eighth place . In 1988 she was part of the Olympic team for Seoul as a substitute rower.

In 1989 she and Ingeburg Althoff formed a pair without a helmsman and won the German championships. At the World Championships in 1989, the two finished third, with Kathrin Haacker and Judith Zeidler from the GDR winning . In 1990 Althoff and Werremeier defended their championship title. Two German teams competed for the last time at the World Championships in Tasmania, Althoff and Werremeier won the world championship in their boat class. The GDR had been the leading rowing nation since the first world championships in women's rowing were held in 1974. Until then, rowers from the Federal Republic of Germany had only won world championship titles in the non-Olympic lightweight classes; Werremeier and Althoff were the first rowers from Germany to become world champions in an Olympic boat class.

In 1991 the two rowers won again at the German championships. At the World Championships in Vienna, the two were defeated by Canadians Marnie McBean and Kathleen Heddle and now received the silver medal after bronze in 1989 and gold in 1990. In 1992 Ingeburg Althoff married and now started as Ingeburg Schwerzmann . After winning the fourth German championship title in a row, the two met the Canadians in the run-up to the 1992 Olympic Games , who also won the race. In the final, the Canadians could not be beaten either, Werremeier and Schwerzmann barely managed to win the silver medal in front of the boat from the United States. The career of the successful two-man ended therewith.

For her success at the 1992 Olympic Games, she received the Silver Laurel Leaf on June 23, 1993 .

In 1994 Stefani Werremeier competed with the German eighth at the World Championships in Indianapolis and won her second world title, in 1995 the eighth finished fourth in Tampere. Stefani Werremeier and Kathrin Haacker returned to the two-man for the 1996 Olympic Games . The two won the German championship title and also reached the Olympic final together, where they finished fourth, almost five seconds behind bronze.

Stefani Werremeier has a doctorate in medicine and practices as a general practitioner in Lostau in Saxony-Anhalt.

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  1. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V., VIBSS: The Federal President and his duties in the field of sport ... on June 23, 1993, Federal President von Weizsäcker awarded disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the 1992 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with the silver laurel leaf ...


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SURNAME Werremeier, Stefani
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rower
DATE OF BIRTH 17th October 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück