Anke Borchmann

Personal information
Born	Anke Grünberg (1954-06-23)23 June 1954 (age 71) Neukalen, East Germany
Height	176 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	65 kg (143 lb)
Sport
Sport	Rowing
Club	SC Dynamo Berlin (until 1976) SG Dynamo Potsdam (from 1977)
Medal record Women'srowing Representing East Germany Olympic Games 1976 Montreal Coxed quad sculls World Rowing Championships 1975 Nottingham Coxed quad sculls 1977 Amsterdam Double sculls

Anke Borchmann (néeGrünberg; born 23 June 1954) is a rower who competed for East Germany in the 1970s.

Grünberg was born inNeukalen,Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, East Germany in 1954.^[1]

Grünberg competed forSC Dynamo Berlin.^[2] Under her maiden name, she came third at the 1971 East German national championships inquad scull. At the 1973 East German national championships she came second in the same boat class. At the 1974 East German national championships she won the quad scull title, came second in the single scull (beaten byChristine Scheiblich), and came third in the double scull alongsideSabine Jahn.^[3][4][5] She travelled to the1974 World Rowing Championships as a reserve but did not compete.^[6] At the 1975 East German national championships she defended her quad scull title.^[3] She was nominated for the1975 World Rowing Championships inNottingham, Great Britain,^[7] where her quad scull team took out the world title.^[2][8][9]

From the 1976 rowing season, she started under her married name Borchmann. She was nominated for the Olympic team and did therefore not compete at the national championships that year.^[10] She won at the1976 Summer Olympics in thecoxed quad sculls.^[1][11] For her Olympic performance, Borchmann was awarded aPatriotic Order of Merit in silver.^[12]

In 1977, Borchmann changed to the double sculls and teamed up withRoswietha Zobelt; she also transferred toSG Dynamo Potsdam where Zobelt was also based.^[13][14] They won the 1977 national championships in that boat class.^[5] At the1977 World Rowing Championships, the East German women's team took all six gold medals, with Borchmann and Zobelt having achieved the largest margin to the second-placed boat at 3.21 seconds.^[15]

In the 1978 season, Borchmann and Zobelt could not retain their dominance. At a regatta in Moscow, they were beaten by the Soviet teamLudmila Parfenova andEleonora Kaminskaitė with an 8-second margin.^[16] At an international regatta inGrünau near Berlin, they came third after the BulgariansSvetla Otsetova andZdravka Yordanova and the Soviet rowers.^[17] At the annualRotsee regatta in Switzerland, two finals were rowed over two days and the Bulgarians won the first contest while the East Germans won the next day.^[18] A week later at the East German national championships, Borchmann and Zobelt were the favourites in the double scull but were beaten by the previously little-noticedGisela Medefindt andPetra Boesler.^[5] They also started with the coxed quad scull where they surprised by beating the favourites.^[3][19] Borchmann and Zobelt were nominated in the double scull for the1978 World Rowing Championships in New Zealand.^[20] In difficult conditions, they were passed by the whole field close to the finish line and came sixth.^[21] She retired after the 1978 season.

Borchmann worked in the administration of theNational People's Army inPotsdam. After theGerman reunification, she transferred to theWasserschutzpolizei. She lives inWerder.^[22]

• 1954 births
• Living people
• People from Mecklenburgische Seenplatte (district)
• Sportspeople from Bezirk Neubrandenburg
• East German female rowers
• Rowers from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
• Olympic rowers for East Germany
• Olympic gold medalists for East Germany
• Rowers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
• Olympic medalists in rowing
• World Rowing Championships medalists for East Germany
• Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
• Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver

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