Marie-Louise Dräger
Marie -Louise Draeger ( born April 11, 1981 in Lübeck) is a former German rower that was 2003 and 2005 in the lightweight double sculls and 2010 in the lightweight quadruple sculls and lightweight One World Champion.
Dräger launched first time in 1999 at the World Under 23 Regatta, the unofficial U23 World Championships. Together with Karin Maier she became vice world champion in this age group. In 2001, she launched after a first use in the World Cup in the lightweight single sculls at the World Championships in Lucerne, finishing in tenth place.
The following year she was with Daniela Reimer at the U23 World Championships in the lightweight double sculls at the start and was again U23 World silver medalist. She then competed at the World Championships in Seville in the lightweight single sculls, where she missed the finals again, but came to seventh place by winning the B final.
It reached its first major success at the World Championships in Milan in 2003, when she was together with Claudia Blasberg world champion in the lightweight double sculls. At the Olympic Games in Athens, she was Ersatzruderin for easy double sculls by Blasberg and Reimer. For the World Championships in Gifu 2005 Dräger moved back to Daniela Reimer in the double sculls and was world champion again. The following year, the team could only occupy the disappointing tenth place at the World Championships in Eton.
2007 Dräger came at the World Championships in Munich in lightweight double sculls with Berit Carow and won bronze. This occupation also ruled the World Cup 2008 for himself, missed at the Beijing Olympics with fourth place but the hoped medal.
2009 Dräger rowed again in the double sculls, this time with the young Anja Noske, after a successful World Cup season they reached at the World Championships in Poznan in the final fourth.
2010 Dräger won for the fifth time in a row at the German Championships in the lightweight single sculls. So far, no other athlete could win so often. In 2010 Dräger rowed then no longer in the double sculls, but in the light and one in the lightweight quadruple sculls. After a successful World Cup season was 2010 European Champion in this boat class in September. On 5 November 2010, she was with Anja Noske, Daniela Reimer and Lena Müller world champion lightweight quadruple sculls.
Since 2012 Lena Müller and Anja Noske interspersed in the association's internal qualification in the lightweight double sculls, Dräger changed to the one of the open weight class. After just under Peggy Waleska defeated at the World Cup in Munich, she sat down at the decisive knockout in Essen, to the Waleska was not even lined up against Julia Lier and Nina Wengert through.
Dräger launched for the ORC Rostock. After the birth of her first child, she ended her career in July 2013.