Ute Wild

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Ute Wild (born June 14, 1965 in Zschopau , after marrying Ute Nötzel ) is a former rower from the German Democratic Republic . In 1988 she won the Olympic gold medal in eighth place .

After finishing fourth at the Junior World Championships in 1982, she won the title in a four with helmsman in 1983 . In 1986 she received her first world championship medal when she finished second behind the boat from the Soviet Union with eighth. In 1987 Ute Wild won the GDR championship with eighth place. At the World Championships in Copenhagen, however, she sat together with Kathrin Haacker in a pair without , the two rowed to second place behind the Romanians Rodica Arba and Olga Homeghi . In 1988 they both switched to the GDR eighth, at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul the eighth, driven by Daniela Neunast, won the line-up of Annegret Strauch , Judith Zeidler , Kathrin Haacker, Ute Wild, Anja Kluge , Ramona Balthasar , Beatrix Schröer and Ute Stange in front of the boats from Romania and China. For this victory she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold. In 1989 Ute Wild won the silver medal behind the Romanians with eighth. At the last appearance of the GDR national rowing team at the world championships on Lake Barrington in Tasmania, Ute Wild won another bronze medal with eighth place.

Ute Wild rowed under coach Jörg Landvoigt at SG Dynamo Potsdam . She is a trained skilled worker in the food industry.

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 .

Individual evidence

  1. Neues Deutschland , 12./13. November 1988, p. 4

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