Susan Antoft
Susan Kirsten Antoft , after marriage to Finch , (born July 30, 1954 in Montreal ) is a former Canadian rower . She won two medals at world championships.
Athletic career
Susan Antoft studied at the University of British Columbia and rowed in the local sports team, the Thunderbirds . At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, women's rowing competitions were on the program for the first time. Antoft took third place in the preliminary run and fourth place in the repechage with the Canadian eighth . In the final, the Canadians rowed to fourth place, less than a second behind the third-placed crew from the United States.
From 1977 Susan Antoft rowed with Elizabeth Craig in twos without a helmsman . At the World Championships in Amstelveen, the two won the bronze medal behind the Olympic winners Sabine Dähne and Angelika Noack from the GDR and Karin Abma and Joke Dierdorp from the Netherlands. In the following year, Craig and Antoft took second place at the World Championships on Lake Karapiro in New Zealand, behind Cornelia Klier and Ute Steindorf from the GDR and ahead of Abma and Dierdorp.
Web links
- Susan Antoft at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
- Susan Antoft in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- World championships in two without at sport-komplett.de
Footnotes
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 563f
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Antoft, Susan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Antoft, Susan Kirsten (full name); Finch, Susan Kirsten (married name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal |