Judith Zeidler

Judith Zeidler

Medal record
Women's rowing
Olympic Games
Representing East Germany
	1988 Seoul	Eights
Representing Germany
	1992 Barcelona	Eights
World Rowing Championships
Representing East Germany
	1989 Bled	Coxless pairs
	1990 Tasmania	Coxless fours
Representing Germany
	1991 Vienna	Coxless fours

Judith Ungemach (née Zeidler, born May 11, 1968) is a German world champion rower and Olympic gold and bronze medalist.

Early life and education

Zeidler was born in Beeskow, Brandenburg. She started rowing at the age of thirteen at the East German best rowing club Dynamo Berlin (later Sport Club Berlin).

Career

After three World Junior titles, Zeidler won gold in the women’s eight at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

A year later she won the world titles in Bled (Slovenia) in the coxless pair. At the 1992 Summer Olympics she won bronze in the women’s eight with the unified German eight.

Zeidler lives with her husband, Matthias Ungemach, and two sons and one daughter on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.

Achievements

Junior world championships

• 1984: Jönköping (SWE) – 1st place (quadruple scull)
• 1986: Roudnice (CZE) – 1st place (quadruple scull)

World championships

• 1989: Bled (SLO) – 1st place (coxless pair)
• 1990: Lake Barrington (AUS) – 3rd place (coxless four)
• 1991: Vienna (AUT) – 3rd place (coxless four)

Olympics

• 1988: Seoul (KOR) – 1st place (eight)
• 1992: Barcelona (SPA) – 3rd place (eight)

See also

• German Australian

External links

• Judith Zeidler dataOlympics profile