Katrin Borchert

Katrin Borchert

Medal record
Women's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
	1992 Barcelona	K-4 500 m
	1996 Atlanta	K-2 500 m
	2000 Sydney	K-1 500 m
World Championships
	1989 Plovdiv	K-1 500 m
	1989 Plovdiv	K-1 5000 m
	1989 Plovdiv	K-4 500 m
	1990 Poznań	K-1 5000 m
	1991 Paris	K-1 500 m
	1991 Paris	K-4 500 m
	1998 Szeged	K-2 500 m
	1998 Szeged	K-2 1000 m
	1999 Milan	K-2 1000 m
	1997 Dartmouth	K-2 500 m
	1997 Dartmouth	K-2 1000 m
	1998 Szeged	K-1 500 m
	2001 Poznań	K-1 500 m
	2001 Poznań	K-2 1000 m
	1990 Poznań	K-1 500 m
	1990 Poznań	K-2 500 m
	1990 Poznań	K-4 500 m
	1991 Paris	K-1 5000 m
	1998 Szeged	K-1 1000 m
	2001 Poznań	K-1 1000 m

Katrin Borchert (born 4 November 1969) is a German-born Australian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to 2001. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won three medals with one silver (1992: K-4 500 m for Germany) and two bronzes (both Australia, 1996: K-2 500 m, 2000: K-1 500 m).

Borchert emigrated to Australia in February 1994. She won K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events at the 1998 World Championships in Hungary with Anna Wood. They won the K-2 1000 m world champion title in 1999. Borchert would win a total of twenty medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with nine golds for four different countries (1989 for East Germany, 1990 for West Germany, 1991-3 for Germany, and 1994-2001 for Australia). At the Sydney Olympics the pairing finished sixth in the K-2 500 m, while she won bronze in the K-1 500 m event.

In 2009 Borchert was inducted into the Queensland Sport Hall of Fame.^[1]

References

• Australian Broadcasting Company profile
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-01-21). Additional archives: Wayback Machine.
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Katrin Borchert". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
• Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Women's Kayak Pairs 500 Meters." In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 493.