Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski

Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski (née Rutschow, born 2 April 1975 in Waren (Müritz)) is a German rower and two-time Olympic gold medalist.

Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski

Rutschow-Stomporowski in 2012
Medal record
Women's rowing
Representing  Germany
Olympic Games
	1996 Atlanta	Quad sculls
	2004 Athens	Single sculls
	2000 Sydney	Single sculls
World Rowing Championships
	1994 Indianapolis	Quad Sculls
	1995 Tampere	Quad Sculls

Biography

In both 1994 and 1995 Rutschow won the world championships gold medal in the quadruple sculls and was part of the gold medal winning team that won the Women's quadruple sculls with fellow Germans, Jana Sorgers, Kerstin Köppen and Kathrin Boron.

Rutschow married Bernhard Stomporowski, a lightweight men's world championship medallist, in December 1999 and afterwards competed as Rutschow-Stomporowski.^[1]

In 1999, she won the Princess Royal Challenge Cup (the premier women's singles sculls event) at the Henley Royal Regatta, rowing for RC Wannsee Berlin.^[2]

Rutschow-Stomporowski won a second Olympic gold medal in the single sculls at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, deposing defending champion Ekaterina Karsten.