Edith Eckbauer

Edith Eckbauer (born 27 October 1949 in Munich as Edith Baumann ) is a retired German rower who won an Olympic bronze medal in 1976.

Edith Baumann began her career in competitive sports at the Munich RSV Bavaria from 1910. 1968 and 1969 they occupied at the German Championship each second in the One behind Bärbel grain hatred. 1970 Edith Baumann moved to Passau rowing club in 1874 and trained there with Brigitte Völkner a double scull. The boat won the German championship in 1970 and 1971 runner-up. At the European Championships in 1971 Edith Baumann won the bronze medal in One. 1972 Edith Baumann returned also in the German Championship in the one and finished second behind Caroline Brandt.

After her marriage she entered from 1973 when Edith Eckbauer, 1973, she won the German championship in the one and came again at the European Championships in third place. In 1974 she reached the fourth place in the one at the World Cup. After this period, Edith Eckbauer of the sculling boats on the belt boats. In 1975, she won the bronze medal at the World Championships in the quad with coxswain. In 1976 Edith Eckbauer the German championship in four, which was only Thea Einöder from the previous year's boat here. Now, together with Thea Einöder they rose in the two without coxswain, this boat won in 1976 in the traditional Rotseeregatta in Lucerne. Then the boat for the Olympic debut of Frauenruderns at the Olympic Games was nominated in Montreal in 1976. In Montreal, the boats from the GDR won four out of six gold medals in women's rowing, only in the two two - boat classes, the GDR was awarded silver behind Bulgarian boats. In pairs without coxswain Eckbauer Edith and Thea Einöder finished third behind the boats from Bulgaria and the GDR. The bronze medal of the two was the first medal for the federal German woman rowing at all and besides two medals for rowers from the United States, the only medal in the women's rowing, which went not to rowers from the Eastern Bloc.

Edith Eckbauer ended her career after the bronze medal. She lives in Upper Bavaria and is active among other things as a fitness trainer.

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