Nadja Drygalla
Nadja Drygalla ( born March 31, 1989 in Rostock ) is a German rower.
Career
After certificate of education Nadja Drygalla trained as a sports and fitness clerk. My training company was the Hotel Neptun in Warnemünde. On 2 September 2008, she started as a police chief contender for the average police a second training at the Institute for police education and training of the professional school for public administration, police and judiciary in Güstrow. At the same time it was incorporated into the newly established sports promotion group of the National Police Mecklenburg- Vorpommern, which included besides cycling Olympic champion Stefan Nimke with the Schwerin athlete Martina Strutz, the Rostock rowers Franziska Kegebein and Julia Lepke other top athletes in the country.
Drygalla rows for the Olympic Rowing Club (ORC ) Rostock. In 2006, she finished with the eight third place at the Junior World Championships. In 2007, she joined the two without coxswain and reached Ulrike Sennewald second place at the Junior World Championships, in 2008 the two were fourth in the U23 World Regatta. In their first season in the senior category Drygalla won with the German women's eight World Cup regatta in Munich, she then moved into the four without coxswain and took a boat of this fifth place at the World Rowing Championships 2009. 2010 occupied Drygalla together with Anne- Sophie Agarius third place in the U23 world Championships. After the eighth place finish at the 2011 World Championships Drygalla appeared with Ulrike Senne forest at the European Championships back in two, and reached the fourth place there.
In the German Rowing Championships Nadja Drygalla won two titles in 2011: In four without she won along with senna forest, Agarius and Julia Lepke. In eight Drygalla and Senne forest rowed in the winning boat while Agarius and Lepke were sitting in second place boat.
2012, Drygalla qualified with the German women's eight for the Olympic Games in London. This was eliminated in the repechage, finishing in seventh place overall.
Until 31 August 2012 Drygalla was hired as a sports coordinator at the Rowing Association Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. On November 1, 2012, she was sporting a soldier in the army.
Controversy
In 2011, the Ministry of Interior of Mecklenburg- Vorpommern information about their five-year relationship with the former NPD parliamentary candidate Michael Fischer, a direct candidates to the NPD and activists of the German comradeship scene in Rostock, known. Other findings of the authority concerned Drygallas contacts with the circle of their friend. Then she broke off the police training. This was followed by the timely departure from the sports promotion group of the National Police Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
During the 2012 Olympics, this compound also came into view a broader public. After Drygalla had completed their competitions, the compounds of Drygallas significant other to extreme right were first known to the German Rowing Association. The athlete was summoned by the leadership of the German Olympic team and left after the conversation took place the Olympic Village, " to bring into being a burden on the Olympic team ." The reason for the association were " findings for the private context of oar " on. Some media criticized Drygallas relationship with her partner and noted that supporters of the extreme right is not likely to represent the German sports at the Olympics. Drygalla distanced itself from extreme right-wing ideology. Both German Defence Minister Thomas de Maizière and the Prime Minister of Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania Erwin Selle ring stood behind Drygalla and warned of a prejudged by the media public. The SPD politician Sebastian Edathy said you can not take Drygalla in " guilt by association ". After a clarifying conversation between Drygalla and the German Rowing Federation on 18 September 2012, the Rowing Federation stood behind his athlete.