Jutta Lau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Jutta Lau

East German rower

Date of Birth: 28-Sep-1955

Place of Birth: Wustermark, Brandenburg, Germany

Profession: rower, rowing coach

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Jutta Lau

  • Jutta Lau (born 28 September 1955 in Wustermark) is a German rower, who competed for the SG Dynamo Potsdam / Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo.
  • She won the medals at the international rowing competitions.She retired from competitive rowing after the 1980 Summer Olympics and from September 1980, she worked as a rowing coach in Potsdam.
  • She graduated with a diploma in physical education from the Deutsche Hochschule für Körperkultur (DHfK) in Leipzig in 1981.
  • She later became the sculls trainer for the national women's team.
  • She was thus responsible for preparing the sculls team for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, USA.
  • Classification earlier in the year determined that Kathrin Boron was the strongest sculler, followed by Jana Thieme, Katrin Rutschow, and Kerstin Köppen.
  • Guided by the principle that the strongest sculler should row in the singles, her preference was for Boron, but Boron preferred to row in the double or quad.
  • Lau thus nominated Thieme for the single, Koppen and Boron would make the double, and Koppen, Boron, Rutschow and Jana Sorgers were to make up the quad.
  • Dr Ralf Kollmann, who as sports director was responsible for nominating the teams, rejected these teams and wanted rowers picked so that more clubs were represented.
  • Germany's national rowing organisation (Deutscher Ruderverband) nominated Meike Evers for the single, and Thieme and Manuela Lutze, and for the quad the team recommended by Lau.
  • Evers had come eighth or ninth in Lau's classification, and Lau predicted that Evers would not reach the A-final (she only made the C-final).
  • Lau further predicted that the double would at best come fourth (they came fifth).
  • Her final prediction was that the quad would win gold, which they did.
  • By Lau's best assessment, had her suggested teams been accepted, all three boats would probably have won medals.
  • After the Atlanta Olympics, she accused Kollmann of incompetence.

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