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East German rower

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Irina Müller
Personal information
Born (1951-10-10) 10 October 1951 (age 73)
Leipzig, East Germany
Occupationjudge
Height176 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight84 kg (185 lb)
SpouseStefan Weiße
Sport
SportRowing
ClubSC Dynamo Berlin
Medal record
Women's rowing
Representing  East Germany
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1976 Montreal Eight
World Rowing Championships
Gold medal – first place 1974 Luzern Eight
Gold medal – first place 1975 Nottingham Coxed four
European Rowing Championships
Silver medal – second place 1973 Moscow Eight
Bronze medal – third place 1971 Copenhagen Coxed four

Irina Müller (later Weiße, born 10 October 1951) is a German rower, who won the gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics and was a member of the SG Dynamo Potsdam.

Müller was born in Leipzig; sources vary whether the birth year was 1950 or 1951.

Immediately after the 1976 Summer Olympics, she married fellow rower Stefan Weiße. As Irina Weiße, she was awarded a Patriotic Order of Merit in silver in September 1976. She was an informer for the Stasi under the codename "Ines".

References

  1. RRK 08 Rudern – Deutsche Rudererfolge bei Europameisterschaften
  2. RRK 08 Rudern – Deutsche Rudererfolge bei Weltmeisterschaften
  3. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Irina Müller". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  4. Kluge, Volker (2000). Das große Lexikon der DDR-Sportler. Die 1000 erfolgreichsten und populärsten Sportlerinnen und Sportler aus der DDR. Ihre Erfolge und Biographien. Berlin: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf. pp. 273f. ISBN 3-89602-348-9.
  5. "Hohe staatliche Auszeichnungen". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Vol. 32, no. 216. 10 September 1976. p. 4. Archived from the original on 26 December 2017. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  6. "KLARTEXT: Richter unter Stasi-Verdacht". rbb-online.de (in German). 13 April 2011. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2019.

External links

Olympic champions – Women's eight
World champions – Women's coxed four
World champions – Women's eight


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