Stephanie Maxwell-Pierson

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Stephanie Maxwell-Pierson (born January 4, 1964 in Somerville , New Jersey ) is a former rower from the United States who won an Olympic bronze medal in 1992.

Career

Stephanie Maxwell-Pierson was on the Cornell University rowing team . There she graduated in hotel management.

She won her first international medal at the 1987 World Championships in Copenhagen when the American eighth with Anna Seaton , Kristen Thorsness , Christine Campbell , Sarah Gengler , Stephanie Maxwell-Pierson, Susan Broome , Abigail Peck , Harriet Metcalf and taxwoman Betsy Beard behind the silver medal won the Romanian eighth. The following year, the American eighth started at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul with Juliet Thompson , Christine Campbell, Abigail Peck, Margaret Mallery , Susan Broome, Stephanie Maxwell-Pierson, Anna Seaton, Alison Townley and Betsy Beard. The Americans took third place in the preliminary run and fourth place in the hope run. In the final, they finished sixth.

In 1989 Seaton and Maxwell-Pierson switched to the two-man team without a helmsman . At the World Championships in Bled , the two finished fourth behind the boats from the GDR, Romania and the Federal Republic of Germany. In November 1990 the World Championships took place in Tasmania , the last time the GDR team competed. In a two-man race without a helmsman, the boat from Germany won ahead of Seaton and Maxwell-Pierson and the boat from the GDR. Seaton and Maxwell-Pierson also competed with the eighth and won their second silver medal behind the Romanians and in front of the boat from the GDR. In 1991, Cynthia Eckert , Shelagh Donohoe , Anna Seaton and Stephanie Maxwell-Pierson rowed in a foursome without a helmsman and won the silver medal behind the Canadians at the World Championships in Vienna . For the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​Seaton and Maxwell-Pierson returned in twos. The two won their preliminary and their semi-finals. In the final, the Canadians won ahead of the Germans, Seaton and Maxwell-Pierson won the bronze medal 0.15 seconds behind the Germans.

Later, Seaton and Maxwell-Pierson were among the first all-women crew to qualify for the America's Cup in 1995 . After her sporting career, Stephanie Maxwell-Pierson worked for the Embassy Suites chain belonging to the Hilton Group .

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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. 186
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 507f
personal data
SURNAME Maxwell-Pierson, Stephanie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rower
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Somerville , New Jersey