Brigitte Amm

Brigitte Amm is a retired East German rower who won one gold and four silver medals at European championships between 1961 and 1966.[2]

Brigitte Amm
Amm (right) at the 1966 European Championships
Sport
SportRowing
ClubSCW DHfK Leipzig[1]
Medal record
Women's rowing
Representing  East Germany
European Rowing Championships
1961 Prague Eight
1962 East Berlin Eight
1963 Moscow Eight
1964 Amsterdam Coxed four
1966 Amsterdam Eight

At the 1961 East German national championships she became national champion with the women's eight.[3] The women's eight, made up solely of rowers from SCW DHfK Leipzig, was sent to the 1961 European Rowing Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where they won silver.[4] In December 1961, seven of the eight rowers were given a Master of Sport award (Gisela Schirmer and their coxswain missed out).[5]

References
  1. Rudern – DDR – Meisterschaften Damen. sport-komplett.de
  2. Ruder-Europameisterschaften seit 1913 Deutsche Medaillenerfolge – Gold, Silber und Bronze. rrk-online.de
  3. Hoffmann, Wilfried. "DDR-Rudermeisterschaften: Achter – Frauen (Plätze 1–3)" [GDR rowing championships: Eight – women (places 1–3)] (in German). Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klub 08. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  4. Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Damen – Achter)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  5. "Verdienstvolle Sportler wurden geehrt" [Meritorious athletes were honoured]. Berliner Zeitung (in German). 17 (346). 17 December 1961. p. 4. Retrieved 7 October 2018.


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