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Britta Oppelt

Britta Oppelt
Medal record
Representing  Germany
Women's rowing
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens Double sculls
Silver medal – second place 2012 London Quadruple sculls
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Beijing Quadruple sculls
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Lake Bled Women's quad
Gold medal – first place 2013 Chungjiu Women's quad
Silver medal – second place 2003 Milan Double sculls
Silver medal – second place 2005 Gifu Women's quad
Silver medal – second place 2006 Eton Double sculls
Silver medal – second place 2007 Munich Women's quad
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Lake Karapiro Women's quad

Britta Oppelt (born July 5, 1978) is a German Olympic-medal winning sculler.

Oppelt was born in Berlin, and competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, in the double sculls, and took home the silver medal along with teammate Peggy Waleska.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she was on the German quadruple sculls team that won the silver medal, along with Annekatrin Thiele, Carina Baer and Julia Richter.

In 2008, she was part of the German quadruple sculls team that won the bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics, along with Manuela Lutze, Kathrin Boron and Stephanie Schiller.

She is also a two-time world champion in the women's quadruple sculls in 2011 and 2013. In 2011 she rowed with Tina Manker, Stephanie Schiller and Julia Richter. In 2013 she rowed with Carina Baer, Julia Richter and Annekatrin Thiele. In the quadruple sculls, she has also won two world championship silver medals, in 2005 (with Susanne Schmidt, Kathrin Boron and Stephanie Schiller) and 2007 (with Manuela Lutze, Kathrin Boron and Stephanie Schiller), and a bronze in 2010 (with Carina Baer, Tina Manker and Julia Richter). She has also won two silvers medals at world level in the double sculls, in 2003 (with Kathrin Boron) and 2006 (with Susanne Schmidt).

At European level she has won quadruple sculls gold at the 2013 European Championships and silver at the 2010 European Championships.



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