Thea Einöder

Thea Einöder ( born June 8, 1951 in Regensburg ) is a retired German rower who won an Olympic bronze medal in 1976.

In 1968, she was German youth champion sculls. The rower of the Rudergesellschaft Munich took part in the World Rowing Championships in 1974 and finished in seventh place in the foursome with control women. In 1975, she reached the bronze medal at the World Championships in the quad with coxswain.

In 1976 Thea Einöder at the German Championships in the quad, which was only Edith Eckbauer from the previous year's boat here. Along with Edith Eckbauer they also won the Cup race in two without coxswain, this boat won in 1976 even with the traditional Rotseeregatta in Lucerne. Then the boat for the Olympic debut of Frauenruderns at the Olympic Games was nominated in Montreal in 1976. In Montreal, the boats from the GDR won four out of six gold medals in women's rowing, only in the two two - boat classes, the GDR was awarded silver behind Bulgarian boats. In pairs without coxswain Eckbauer Edith and Thea Einöder finished third behind the boats from Bulgaria and the GDR. The bronze medal of the two was the first medal for the federal German woman rowing at all and besides two medals for rowers from the United States, the only medal in the women's rowing, which went not to rowers from the Eastern Bloc.

From 1993 to 2006 she was under the name of Dr. Thea Straube chairman of the steering committee Munich 1972.