Liane Buhr

Liane Buhr ( born March 11, 1956 in Pritzwalk as Liane Weigelt ) is a former rower from the GDR. She won in 1976 and 1980 Olympic gold in the quadruple sculls.

Life

Liane Weigelt won as a control woman 1972 at the Spartakiade with the controlled four and the eight. In 1973, she drove the eight of SG Dynamo Potsdam to third place in the GDR championships. The World Rowing Championships 1974 in Lucerne for the first time were women's competitions at the World Championship program. In controlled sculls Sybille Tietze, Jutta Lau, Ursula Wagner, Roswietha Reichel and Liane Weigelt sat as coxswain, these five rowers won the first world championship in this class of boat. 1975 rowed Anke Grünberg for Sybille Tietze, Ursula Wagner and Reichel Roswietha were called for Marriage Ursula Unger and Roswietha Zobelt. Grünberg, Lau, Unger, Zobelt and Weigelt won in the GDR championships and also at the World Championships in Nottingham. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, the woman Rowing had its Olympic debut. Ursula Unger had been replaced by Viola Poley, Anke Grünberg was called for Marriage Anke Borchmann. The GDR sculls with Borchmann, Lau, Poley, Zobelt and Weigelt won at the Olympic Games, and as Liane Weigelt had won at the age of 20 years, two gold medals at world championships and an Olympic Games.

After the Olympic victory Liane Weigelt interrupted her athletic career, she began studying medicine and married. In the GDR Championships 1978 they drove the quadruple sculls with Jutta Lau and Sybille Tietze only to second place behind the boat with Anke Borchmann and Roswietha Zobelt. After the GDR Skull boats had won at the World Championships in 1978 only one medal, 1979, the quadruple sculls with experienced rowers was assembled in which Liane Buhr was the coxswain again. Sybille Tietze, Christine Röpke, Jutta Lau and Roswietha Zobelt won in the GDR Championships and were also successful at the World Championships in Bled. The following year, Jutta Ploch was for Christine Röpke in the boat, Sybille Tietze was now called Sybille Reinhardt. In the occupation Sybille Reinhardt, Jutta Ploch, Jutta Lau, Roswietha Zobelt and Liane Buhr also won the quadruple sculls at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, for Lau, Zobelt Buhr and it was the second Olympic gold medal.

Liane Buhr is a general practitioner in spruce forest.

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