Kirsten Wenzel
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Born | Leipzig, East Germany | 27 February 1961|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 150 cm (4 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 48 kg (106 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse(s) | Rainer Strohbach (div) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | SC DHfK, Leipzig | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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[]
- ^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Kirsten Wenzel". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- ^ a b c 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: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag. p. 621. ISBN 3-89602-538-4.
- ^ a b "Kirsten Wenzel". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- ^ "Kirsten Strohbach". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- ^ "Vom Berliner Sportleben" [From the Berlin sports life]. Berliner Zeitung (in German). Vol. 38, no. 298. 20 December 1982. p. 7. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- 1961 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Leipzig
- People from Bezirk Leipzig
- East German female rowers
- Coxswains (rowing)
- Olympic rowers of East Germany
- Rowers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for East Germany
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- World Rowing Championships medalists for East Germany
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
- German rowing Olympic medalist stubs