Thea Einöder

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Thea Einöder (born June 8, 1951 in Regensburg ) is a former German rower who won an Olympic bronze medal in 1976.

In 1968 she was the German youth champion in four- four. The rower from the Munich rowing company took part in the 1974 rowing world championships and took seventh place in the four with a helmsman . In 1975 she achieved the bronze medal at the World Championships in a four-man with a helmsman .

In 1976 Thea Einöder won the German championships in a foursome, with only Edith Eckbauer from the previous year being there. Together with Edith Eckbauer, she also won the championship race in two without a helmsman , this boat also won the traditional Rotseeregatta in Lucerne in 1976. The boat was then nominated for the Olympic premiere of women's rowing at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. In Montreal, the boats from the GDR won four out of six possible gold medals in women's rowing; the GDR only received silver behind Bulgarian boats in the two two-man boat classes. In the two without a helmsman, Edith Eckbauer and Thea Einöder took third place behind the boats from Bulgaria and the GDR. The bronze medal of the two was the first medal for West German women rowing and, along with two medals for rowers from the United States, the only medal in women rowing that did not go to rowers from the Eastern Bloc. For this success, she, like her partner Edith Eckbauer, received the Silver Laurel Leaf from Federal President Walter Scheel .

From 1993 to 2006 she was named Dr. Thea Straube chairwoman of the rowing society Munich 1972 .

literature

  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany . Frankfurt am Main 1976

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stadt Landshut, Sportchronik 1974–76: … 1976… Reception of the German Olympic team in October with Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in Bonn and award with the silver laurel leaf.
  2. ^ History of the rowing society in Munich. Retrieved January 19, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Einöder, Thea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Straube, Thea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rower
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg