Ingeburg Schwerzmann
Inge Burg Schwerzmann ( born June 2, 1967 in Münster, Westphalia Ingeburg Althoff ) is a retired German rower who won an Olympic silver medal in 1992.
Inge Burg Althoff rowed for the rowing club Hansa 1898 (Dortmund). In 1984, she finished with the aft third place at the Junior World Championships. In 1987, she won her first German championship in four with coxswain. The World Rowing Championships 1987, the rowers sat out of the four in the German Roller, who finished fifth. In 1988, she won at the German Championships along with Elke Markwort in two without tax woman reached at the 1988 Olympic Games Ingeburg Althoff with the German Eighth to seventh place.
From 1989 it formed together with Stefani Werre Meier one of two without coxswain and defended her national title in this class of boat. At the World Championships in 1989, the two took third place, it won Kathrin Haacker and Judith Zeidler from the GDR. 1990 defended Althoff and Werre Meier their title. At the World Championships in Tasmania for the last time occurred at two German teams, Althoff and Werre Meier won in their boat class the world title. Since 1974 world championships were held in the women's rowing for the first time, the GDR had been the leading rowing nation. Rowers from the Federal Republic of Germany had previously won only in the non-Olympic lightweight world champion title, Werre Meier and Althoff were the first rowers from the Federal Republic, the world champions were in an Olympic boat class.
1991 won the two rowers again at the German Championships. At the World Championships in Vienna were subject to both the Canadians Marnie McBean and Kathleen Heddle and received after bronze in 1989 and gold in 1990 now the silver medal. The end of 1991 married Inge Burg Althoff the Swiss rower Beat Schwerzmann and entered 1992 as Ingeburg Schwerzmann. After winning the fifth German champion title in a row, the two met at the 1992 Olympic Games already in the run to the Canadians who won the race also. In the final, the Canadians were also not beat Werre Meier and Schwerzmann could win the silver medal just before the boat from the United States. The career of the successful Zweiers ended.