Kerstin Petersman ( Cerstin Petersmann ; German ; , ) - German rower , speaking for the national teams of Germany and United Germany in rowing in the 1980s and 1990s years Bronze medalist of the Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona , winner of silver and bronze medals at world championships, winner of many regattas of national and international importance.
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| Growth | 184 cm |
| Weight | 73 kg |
Biography
Kerstin Petersman was born on November 27, 1964 in Dortmund , Germany . As the daughter of the famous German rower and coach Günter Petersman , she began to row by the instruction of her father in 1980. She was trained in the Dortmund rowing club "Hansa".
For the first time declared itself in rowing in 1982, winning the silver medal in the swing steering eights at the Junior World Championship in Italy.
In 1983, she entered the main team of the West German national team and performed at the World Championships in Duisburg , where she managed to qualify only in the consolation final of the B in the eight.
At the world championship in 1987 in Copenhagen showed the fifth result in the eight.
Together with her younger sister, Catherine Petersman, and several other rowers, she participated in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul , but only the eighth of them finished seventh.
In 1989, at the World Championships in Bled, she started in two disciplines at once: she took the fifth place in the eight and the sixth place in the wheelless fours.
The first serious success at the adult international level was achieved in the 1990 season, when she visited the World Championships in Tasmania and brought back a silver dignity award, won in the race for the four-handed fours - in the final she was bypassed only by a crew from Romania.
Since 1991, Petersman represented the national team of a united Germany, in particular, this season she performed at the world championship in Vienna , where she received bronze in bezruulnye fours, giving way to teams from Canada and the USA.
Thanks to a series of successful performances, she won the right to defend the honor of the country at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona - in the crew, which also included rowers Catherine Hacker , Christian Hartzdorf , Sylvia Dordelman , Dana Piritz , Annegret Strauh , Ute Wagner , Judith Zeidler and rudie Daniela, of course , unlocked . she finished in the program of the eights of the third behind the crews from Canada and Romania - thereby winning the bronze Olympic medal [1] . For this outstanding achievement, on June 23, 1993, she was awarded the highest sports award in Germany, the Silver Leaf , [2] .
After the Barcelona Olympics, Kerstin Petersman no longer showed any significant results in the international arena.
Notes
- Ation Nationales Olympisches Komitee für Deutschland: Barcelona 92. Die deutsche Olympiamannschaft . Frankfurt am Main 1992
- ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V., VIBSS: Der Bundespräsident und seine Aufgaben im Bereich des Sportes: ... am 23. Juni 1993 zéichnete Bundespräsident von Weizsäcker ... behinderte und nicht behinderte Sportler, und zwar die Medaillengewinner der Olympischen und Paralympischen Spiele 1992, áynt éné dem, élenné rythy, 1992
Links
- Kerstin Petersman - Olympic statistics on Sports-Reference.com (English)
- Kerstin Petersman - FISA Profile (English)
- Kerstin Petersman (Eng.) - page on the website of the International Olympic Committee