Maria Brandin

Helene Maria Brandin ( born September 4, 1963 in Kungälv ) is a former Swedish rower.

Brandin In 1987, for the first time in the finals at the World Rowing Championships: together with Carina Gustafsson she finished in double sculls sixth place. The following year, the two were eighth at the Olympic Games in Seoul. In 1989, Brandin in the One and immediately took sixth place at the World Championships in Bled, a year later she was in Tasmania Fifth. 1991 won Brandin on Lake Piediluco their first World Cup race, at the World Championships in 1991 in Vienna, she finished as the year in fifth place. Rate this place she repeated in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.

1993 won Brandin in Tampere and in Henley two World Cup regattas, at the World Championships in Račice u Štětí she reached the fourth place. After five years with a Endkampfplatzierung the season's highlight is Brandin could qualify at the World Championships in 1994 in Indianapolis only for the B - final, which they won then. Then in 1995 was Brandins best season: according to a World Cup victory in Paris and Henley also won at the World Championships in Tampere. The following year, she missed at the Olympic Games in Atlanta in fourth just a medal.

At the World Championships in 1997 at the Lac Aiguebelette Brandin won her second international medal when she won the bronze medal behind the White Russian Ekaterina Chodotowitsch and the Danish Trine Hansen. Also bronze she won the following year in Cologne behind the Russian Irina Fedotova and German Katrin Rutschow. after a 15th place finish at the 1999 World Championships and the eleventh place in their fourth Olympic participation ended Maria Brandin her career with 12th place at the World Championships in 2001.