Ekaterina Karsten

Ekaterina Karsten
(née Khadatovich)

Karsten at the 2010 World Championships
Personal information
Born	2 June 1972 Asechyna, Belarus
Sport
Sport	Rowing
Event	single sculls
Club	Minsk City Club
Medal record Women's rowing Olympic Games Representing Belarus 1996 Atlanta Single sculls 2000 Sydney Single sculls 2004 Athens Single sculls 2008 Beijing Single sculls Representing  Unified Team 1992 Barcelona Quadruple sculls World Championships Representing Belarus 1997 Lac d'Aiguebelette Single sculls 1999 St. Catharines Single sculls 2005 Kaizu, Gifu Single sculls 2006 Eton Single sculls 2007 Munich Single sculls 2009 Poznań Single sculls 2002 Seville Single sculls 2003 Milan Quadruple sculls 2010 Hamilton Single sculls 2011 Bled Single sculls 2001 Lucerne Single sculls 2001 Lucerne Double sculls 2002 Seville Quadruple sculls 2003 Milan Single sculls 2013 Chungju Double sculls European Championships 2014 Belgrade W4x 2017 Racice W1x Representing Soviet Union 1991 Vienna Double sculls Gold Cup Challenge 2011 Philadelphia Single sculls

Ekaterina Karsten (née Khadatovich (Хадатовіч)) (Belarusian: Кацярына Карстэн, Kaciaryna Karsten; Russian: Екатерина Карстен; born 2 June 1972) is a Belarusian rower, a seven-time Olympian and first medalist from Republic of Belarus, a two-time Olympic champion and six-time World Champion in the single scull.

Biography

At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, under her maiden name of Khadatovich, she competed in her first Olympic Games as part of the Women's quadruple sculls. The team competing as the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics due to the recent Dissolution of the Soviet Union won the bronze medal.

Khadatovich began to concentrate her career as a single scull and by the start of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta she had established herself as a major contender for the women's Olympic single sculls. She claimed gold, winning the final in a time of 7:32.31.

The Belarus rower then won both World Championship gold medals in 1997 and 1999 and married a German, toking the name Karsten, She arrived at her third Olympic Games in 2000 in Sydney as the strong favourite to win again. However, in the final of the single scull she was pushed all the way by Rumyana Neykova and managed to hold on for a victory by one hundredth of one second.

In 2001, Karsten won the Princess Royal Challenge Cup (the premier women's singles sculls event) at the Henley Royal Regatta, rowing for the Minsk City Club she defeated German Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski in the final.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she won a silver medal and in 2008 in Beijing a bronze.

She also won at the World Championships in single sculls in 1997, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009, was runner up in 2002 and 2010 and got bronze in 2001 and 2003. She won the European Championships in 2009 and 2010. She won the world junior championships in 1990.

Aged 40, she still managed to reach the final of the Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's single sculls in London and made the semi-finals of the same event at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.

See also

• List of multiple Summer Olympic medalists

External links

• Ekaterina Karsten at World Rowing (archive)
• Ekaterina Karsten (Khodotovich) at the National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus
• Ekaterina Karsten at Olympics.com
• Katsiaryna Khadatovich-Karsten at Olympedia