Ute Schell
Personal information
Birth nameUte Stange
Born (1966-04-02) 2 April 1966
Heubach, Masserberg, East Germany[1]
Sport
SportRowing
ClubSG Dynamo Potsdam
Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo
Medal record
Representing  East Germany
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1988 Seoul Eight
World Rowing Championships
Silver medal – second place 1985 Hazewinkel Eight
Silver medal – second place 1986 Nottingham Eight
Bronze medal – third place 1990 Tasmania Eight
Representing  Germany
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 1992 Barcelona Eight
World Rowing Championships
Gold medal – first place 1994 Indianapolis Eight

Ute Schell (née Stange then Wagner, born 2 April 1966) is a German rower, who competed for the SG Dynamo Potsdam / Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo. She has won several medals at international rowing competitions.[2][3][4] She was first coached by Herta Weissig and then Wolfgang Schell.[5]

She first competed under her maiden name Stange up until the 1988 Olympics; in November 1988 she received a Patriotic Order of Merit in gold under her first married name Wagner.[6] In 1995 she married her coach Schell. She competed at the 1996 Olympics under her second married name Schell.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ute Schell-Wagner-Stange". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  2. ↑ "RRK 08 Rudern - Deutsche Rudererfolge bei Olympia". Rrk-online.de. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  3. ↑ RRK 08 Rudern – Deutsche Rudererfolge bei Weltmeisterschaften Archived 8 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ "Deutsche Sprintmeisterschaften (Herren - Teil 4)". Sport-komplett.de. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  5. 1 2 Kluge, Volker (2004). Das große Lexikon der DDR-Sportler: Die 1000 erfolgreichsten und populärsten Sportlerinnen und Sportler aus der DDR, ihre Erfolge, Medaillen und Biographien [The big lexicon of the GDR athletes: The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes, medals and biographies.] (in German) (2 ed.). Berlin: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag. pp. 543f. ISBN 3-89602-538-4.
  6. ↑ "Hohe staatliche Auszeichnungen für hervorragende Leistungen im DDR-Sport" [High state awards for outstanding achievements in GDR sport]. Neue Zeit (in German). Vol. 44, no. 268. 12 November 1988. p. 3. Retrieved 6 November 2018.


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