Britta Oppelt

Britta Oppelt
Medal record
Representing  Germany
Women's rowing
Olympic Games
2004 Athens Double sculls
2012 LondonQuadruple sculls
2008 Beijing Quadruple sculls
World Championships
2011 Lake Bled Women's quad
2013 ChungjiuWomen's quad
2003 MilanDouble sculls
2005 GifuWomen's quad
2006 EtonDouble sculls
2007 MunichWomen's quad
2010 Lake KarapiroWomen's quad

Britta Oppelt (born 5 July 1978) is a German Olympic-medal winning sculler.

Oppelt was born in Berlin, and competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, in the double sculls, and took home the silver medal along with teammate Peggy Waleska.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she was on the German quadruple sculls team that won the silver medal, along with Annekatrin Thiele, Carina Bär and Julia Richter.[1]

In 2008, she was part of the German quadruple sculls team that won the bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics, along with Manuela Lutze, Kathrin Boron and Stephanie Schiller.[2]

She is also a two-time world champion in the women's quadruple sculls in 2011 and 2013.[3] In 2011, she rowed with Tina Manker, Stephanie Schiller and Julia Richter.[3][4] In 2013, she rowed with Carina Bär, Julia Richter and Annekatrin Thiele. In the quadruple sculls, she has also won two world championship silver medals, in 2005 (with Susanne Schmidt, Kathrin Boron and Stephanie Schiller) and 2007 (with Manuela Lutze, Kathrin Boron and Stephanie Schiller), and a bronze in 2010 (with Carina Bär, Tina Manker and Julia Richter).[5][6][7] She has also won two silvers medals at world level in the double sculls, in 2003 (with Kathrin Boron) and 2006 (with Susanne Schmidt).[8][9]

At European level she has won quadruple sculls gold at the 2013 European Championships and silver at the 2010 European Championships.[10][11]

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 April 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  2. ↑ "2008 Olympics – Women's Quadruple Sculls Final". www.worldrowing.com. FISA. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  3. 1 2 "2011 World Championships – Women's Quadruple Sculls Final". www.worldrowing.com. FISA. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  4. ↑ "2013 World Rowing Championship – Women's Quadruple Sculls Final". www.worldrowing.com. FISA. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  5. ↑ "2005 World Rowing Championship – Women's Quadruple Sculls Final". www.worldrowing.com. FISA. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  6. ↑ "2007 World Rowing Championship – Women's Quadruple Sculls Final". www.worldrowing.com. FISA. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  7. ↑ "2010 World Rowing Championship – Women's Quadruple Sculls Final". www.worldrowing.com. FISA. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  8. ↑ "2003 World Rowing Championship – Women's Double Sculls Final". www.worldrowing.com. FISA. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  9. ↑ "2006 World Rowing Championships – Women's Double Sculls Final". www.worldrowing.com. FISA. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  10. ↑ "2013 European Championships". www.worldrowing.com. FISA. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  11. ↑ "2010 European Rowing Championships – Women's Quadruple Sculls Final". www.worldrowing.com. FISA. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
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