Peggy Waleska
Appearance
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Born | Pirna, Bezirk Dresden, East Germany | 11 April 1980|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Pirnaer Ruderverein 1872 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Peggy Waleska (born 11 April 1980) is a German rower.
Waleska was born in 1980 in Pirna, a town in Saxony.[1] She is a world champion rower who won a gold medal in the women's quadruple sculls in Lucerne, Switzerland, in 2001 and successfully defended the title in Seville, Spain, in 2002. At the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics, Waleska won a silver medal in the women's double sculls event.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Peggy Waleska". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
- ^ "Peggy Waleska". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
External links
[edit]- Peggy Waleska. "Über mich (About me)". Archived from the original on 9 October 2007. Retrieved 14 June 2007.
- International Regatta Ratzeburg [1]
Categories:
- 1980 births
- Living people
- People from Pirna
- Sportspeople from Bezirk Dresden
- German female rowers
- Rowers from Saxony
- Olympic rowers for Germany
- Rowers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Germany
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- World Rowing Championships medalists for Germany
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century German sportswomen
- German rowing Olympic medalist stubs