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East German rowing cox
Kirsten Wenzel
Wenzel in 1982
Born (1961-02-27 ) 27 February 1961 (age 63)
Leipzig , East Germany Height 150 cm (4 ft 11 in) Weight 48 kg (106 lb) Spouse
Rainer Strohbach (div) Sport Rowing Club SC DHfK, Leipzig
Kirsten Wenzel (later Strohbach , born 27 February 1961) is a rowing
cox who represented East Germany.
Rowing career
Wenzel was born in 1961 in
Leipzig .
[1] She started for SC DHfK
Leipzig and won gold at the 1975
Spartakiad in the coxed quad scull.
[2] At the
1978 World Rowing Championships on
Lake Karapiro in New Zealand, she became world champion with the coxed four team. In the same boat class but with different rowers, she won silver at the
1979 World Rowing Championships at
Bled , Yugoslavia.
[3]
At the
1980 Summer Olympics in
Moscow , Wenzel won gold with the
coxed four .
[1] At the
1981 World Rowing Championships in
Munich , she won silver with the coxed four. At the
1982 World Rowing Championships on the
Rotsee in Switzerland she coxed the women's eight to bronze.
[3] She competed at the
1983 World Rowing Championships under her married name Strohbach
[2] and won a final bronze medal with the women's eight before she retired.
[4]
Private life
On 18 December 1982, Wenzel married Olympic swimmer
Rainer Strohbach at the town hall of
Pankow .
[5] She studied to become a teacher and taught at high schools in Berlin. She later divorced Strohbach.
[2]
References
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"Kirsten Wenzel" . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com .
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Kluge, Volker (2004). "Sorger, Jana". Das große Lexikon der DDR-Sportler: Die 1000 erfolgreichsten und populärsten Sportlerinnen und Sportler aus der DDR, ihre Erfolge, Medaillen und Biographien [The big lexicon of the GDR athletes: The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes, medals and biographies. ] (in German). Berlin:
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ISBN
3-89602-538-4 .
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"Kirsten Wenzel" .
International Rowing Federation . Retrieved 1 October 2018 .
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"Kirsten Strohbach" .
International Rowing Federation . Retrieved 1 October 2018 .
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"Vom Berliner Sportleben" [From the Berlin sports life].
Berliner Zeitung (in German). Vol. 38, no. 298. 20 December 1982. p. 7. Archived from
the original on 30 September 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2018 .
1976 :
Karin Metze ,
Bianka Schwede ,
Gabriele Lohs ,
Andrea Kurth ,
Sabine Heß (cox) (
GDR )
1980 :
Silvia Fröhlich ,
Ramona Kapheim ,
Angelika Noack ,
Romy Saalfeld ,
Kirsten Wenzel (cox) (
GDR )
1984 :
Chira Apostol ,
Olga Homeghi ,
Viorica Ioja (cox),
Florica Lavric ,
Maria Fricioiu (
ROU )
1988 :
Gerlinde Doberschütz ,
Carola Hornig ,
Sylvia Rose (cox),
Birte Siech ,
Martina Walther (
GDR )
1974 :
(
Rosel Nitsche ,
Angelika Noack ,
Renate Schlenzig ,
Sabine Dähne , cox
Christa Karnath )
1975 :
(
Helma Lehmann ,
Henrietta Dobler ,
Dagmar Bauer ,
Irina Müller , cox
Sabine Brincker )
1977 :
(
Marion Rohs ,
Ilona Richter ,
Katja Rothe ,
Bärbel Bendiks , cox
Marina Wilke )
1978 :
(
Kersten Neisser ,
Angelika Noack ,
Ute Skorupski ,
Marita Sandig , cox
Kirsten Wenzel )
1979 :
(
Valentina Semenova ,
Svetlana Semyonova ,
Galina Stepanova ,
Maria Fadeyeva , cox
Nina Cheremisina )
1981 :
(
Olga Pivovarova ,
Marina Studneva ,
Svetlana Semyonova ,
Raisa Doligoiada , cox
Nina Cheremisina )
1982 :
(
Svetlana Semyonova ,
Valentina Semenova ,
Galina Stepanova ,
Larisa Zavarzina , cox
Nina Cheremisina )
1983 :
(
Claudia Noack ,
Iris Rudoplh ,
Sigrid Anders ,
Carola Miseler , cox
Carolina Richter )
1985 :
(
Kerstin Spittler ,
Jutta Abromeit ,
Steffi Götzelt ,
Carola Lichey , cox
Daniela Neunast )
1986 :
(
Doina Bălan ,
Marioara Trașcă ,
Chira Stoean ,
Lucia Toader , cox
Viorica Ioja )
1987 :
(
Valentina Virlan ,
Marioara Trașcă ,
Adriana Chelariu ,
Veronica Necula , cox
Ecaterina Oancia )