Ute Steindorf

DDR eighth 1982: Ute Steindorf is third from the left

Ute Steindorf (born August 26, 1957 in Wolfen ) is a former rower from the German Democratic Republic . In 1980 she won the Olympic gold medal without a helmsman .

Ute Steindorf started at Motor Raguhn and then moved to SC DHfK Leipzig . There she met Corneliaügel , with whom she won silver in the eighth and bronze in the two at the 1975 Spartakiad . In 1976, both were available as substitutes for the team at the 1976 Olympic Games . In 1977 Steindorf andügel changed to the GDR eighth, who won the world championship title in Amsterdam with Corneliaügel, Ute Steindorf, Gabriele Lohs , Kersten Neisser , Marita Sandig , Andrea Kurth , Bianka Schwede , Karin Metze and taxwoman Sabine Heß . From 1978 Steindorf andügel formed a pair without a helmsman who won the World Championships in New Zealand in 1978 and in Bled in 1979. In 1980 Corneliaügel married, and the duo Ute Steindorf and Cornelia Klier won the gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games . For this success Ute Steindorf was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In 1982 she was back in eighth and rowed a bronze medal at the World Championships in Lucerne.

literature

• Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 , page 375.

Web links

• Ute Steindorf in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• German successes at world championships

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 3