Brigitte Amm

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

SportRowing
ClubSCW DHfK Leipzig[1]
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Brigitte Amm
Sport
SportRowing
ClubSCW DHfK Leipzig[1]
Medal record
Women's rowing
Representing  East Germany
European Rowing Championships
Silver medal – second place1961 PragueEight
Silver medal – second place1962 East BerlinEight
Silver medal – second place1963 MoscowEight
Silver medal – second place1964 AmsterdamCoxed four
Gold medal – first place1966 AmsterdamEight
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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]

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