Valerie Viehoff

Valerie Viehoff (born February 16, 1976 in Bonn ) is a former German rower who won an Olympic silver medal in 2000.

Valerie Viehoff started for the Siegburg rowing club . The lightweight rower won in 1994 at the Junior World Championships in the double foursome in the open weight class. In 1997 and 2002 she was German champion in single , in 2000 she won the double scull with Claudia Blasberg .

At the 1998 World Championships in Cologne, she won together with Anna Kleinz , Christine Morawitz and Nicole Faust in the double fours, with which Morawietz and Faust were able to defend their title from the previous year. In 1999 Valerie Viehoff took part in the world championship in single and finished fourth. For the Olympic Games 2000 she switched to the double scull to Claudia Blasberg, the only Olympic boat class for lightweight scullers. Behind the Romanians Constanța Burcică and Angela Alupei , Blasberg and Viehoff won the silver medal.

For winning the silver medal, she received the silver bay leaf on February 2, 2001 .

Viehoff has a doctorate in geography and worked as a research assistant at the Geography Institute at the University of Bonn .

literature

• National Olympic Committee for Germany: Sydney 2000. The German Olympic team . Frankfurt am Main 2000

Web links

• Valerie Viehoff at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Valerie Viehoff in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• German successes at world championships
• German championships in the lightweight single
• German championships in lightweight double sculls

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dirk Wende: There is a relaxed atmosphere at the Chancellor's table. In: www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de. Bonner General-Anzeiger , February 2, 2001, accessed on December 7, 2016 : "Johannes Rau was given the laurel leaf to 204 athletes, including Monika Weber (OFC Bonn) and Valeri Viehoff (Siegburger RV), a premiere. " 
2. ↑ Employee of the development geography group at the Geographical Institute of the University of Bonn  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.