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Place of Birth: Breitenbrunn, Saxony, Saxony, Germany
About Andrea Kurth
- Andrea Kurth (later Schippan then Sredzki, born 30 September 1957) is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics. She was born in Breitenbrunn in 1957 and she started for SC Einheit Dresden.
- In 1976 she was a crew member of the East German boat which won the gold medal in the coxed four event.After the 1976 Olympics, the coxed four was absorbed into an eight.
- Kurth became national champion with that new team and the team went on to become world champion at the 1977 World Rowing Championships on the Bosbaan in the Netherlands.
- She was the stroke for the eight and later said that the 1977 world championship meant more to her than her Olympic victory.
- She remained active after 1977 but suffered a setback due to her trainer, Richard Wecke, fleeing to West Germany while they were in Amsterdam.
- She was also suffering injury problems.
- She prepared herself for the 1980 Olympics but finished her career when she needed a hand operation.In an August 1977 interview, she stated that she was engaged.
- At the 1978 East German championships, she competed as Andrea Schippan and came third with the women's eight and second with the coxed four.In 1980, she married Gerd Sredzki, a double-world champion with the men's eight, and moved to Berlin where her husband was based.
- In 1983, they had a son, Alexander Sredzki, who was junior and U23 world champion in 2001 (JM8+) and 2005 (BM4+), respectively.
- Andrea Sredzki works for the mail order company Otto.
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