Ute rod

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Ute Stange , divorced Ute Wagner , married Ute Schell , (born April 2, 1966 in Heubach ) is a former German rower . She won Olympic gold in eighth with the GDR in 1988 and became world champion in 1994 with the German eighth.

Career

Ute Stange began her career at SC DHfK Leipzig ; from 1989 she started as Ute Wagner. After the reunification she moved from Leipzig to Saarbrücken, where she competed for the Saarbrücken rowing club . In 1996 she rowed as Ute Schell.

Olympic champion Ute Stange

After Ute Stange was the eighth European junior champion in 1984, she and Gerlinde Doberschütz took second place in the two-man category without a helmsman at the GDR small boat championships in 1985 . At the championships of the big boats both sat in the eighth and Ute Stange won her first GDR championship title. At the 1985 World Rowing Championships, the GDR eighth won the silver medal behind the boat from the Soviet Union. In 1986 Doberschütz and Stange won the GDR titles in two without and eight, at the World Championships the GDR eighth repeated his second place from the previous year. After finishing fourth in the eighth at the 1987 World Rowing Championships, the GDR eight was reassembled in 1988. At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988, Daniela Neunast's eighth in the line-up of Annegret Strauch , Judith Zeidler , Kathrin Haacker , Ute Wild , Anja Kluge , Ramona Balthasar , Beatrix Schröer and Ute Stange won ahead of the boats from Romania and China. For this victory she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold.

World champion Ute Wagner

In 1989 Ute Wagner won the GDR championships together with Christiane Harzendorf , Heike Winkler and Annegret Strauch in a four without a helmsman . For the world championships in Bled Ina Justh stepped in for Heike Winkler, the boat won the world championship title straight away. In 1990 Wagner returned to eighth: after 1985, 1986 and 1988 she won her fourth and last GDR championship title in this boat class. In the last appearance of the GDR national rowing team at the world championships on Lake Barrington in Tasmania, the eighth won the bronze medal behind the Romanians and the Americans.

In 1991, the Neu-Saarbrückerin took second place at the German championships in eighth place. Nevertheless, Ute Wagner started at the world championships in eighth place, who finished fifth in Vienna. In 1992 she won her first German championship title in eighth place, and four more should follow by 1996. At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​the German eighth won the bronze medal behind the Canadians and Romanians in the line-up of Annegret Strauch, Sylvia Dördelmann , Cerstin Petersmann , Kathrin Haacker, Dana Pyritz , Christiane Harzendorf, Ute Wagner, Judith Zeidler and taxwoman Daniela Neunast, So with five Olympic champions from 1988.

In 1993 the German eighth won the world championship bronze behind Romania and the US boat. In 1977 the GDR eighth had won his last world championship title, at the 1994 World Championships in Indianapolis the eighth of the German Rowing Association won the title for the first time. Kathrin Haacker, Antje Rehaag , Andrea Klapheck , Dana Pyritz, Doreen Martin , Micaela Schmidt , Stefani Werremeier , Ute Wagner and helmswoman Doreen Schnell won the victory over the boats from the United States and Romania . In the following year, the German eighth finished fourth at the World Championships.

End of career Ute Schell

After marrying her trainer from Saarbrücken, Ute Schell won the fifth German championship title in a row in 1996. At the 1996 Olympic Games , the German eighth could not qualify for the final. The second place in the B final meant eighth place in the overall statement.

literature

  • Volker Kluge : Lexicon athletes in the GDR . Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2009 ISBN 978-3-355-01759-6 (entry as Ute Stange)
  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Barcelona 92. The German Olympic team . Frankfurt am Main 1992 (entry as Ute Wagner)
  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Atlanta 96. The German Olympic team . Frankfurt am Main 1996 (entry as Ute Schell)

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Footnotes

  1. The lemma corresponds to the name in the book by Volker Kluge published in 2009. A Lemma election as in the Sports-Reference database is not appropriate because, according to all print sources, the rower has never started under a double or even triple name.
  2. GDR championships in two without
  3. ^ GDR championships in the eighth
  4. Neues Deutschland , 12./13. November 1988, p. 4