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 Aiguebelette-le-Lac Single sculls 1999 St. Catharines Single sculls 2005 Kaizu Single sculls 2006 Dorney Single sculls 2007 Oberschleißheim Single sculls 2009 Poznań Single sculls 2002 Seville Single sculls 2003 Milan Quadruple sculls 2010 Cambridge 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 Representing Soviet Union 1991 Vienna Double sculls World Junior Championships Representing Soviet Union 1990 Aiguebelette-le-Lac Single sculls European Championships Representing Belarus 2014 Belgrade Quadruple sculls 2017 Račice Single sculls Gold Cup Challenge Representing Belarus 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 the first medalist from the 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 in the women's quadruple sculls as part of the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics due to the recent Dissolution of the Soviet Union, winning the bronze medal.

Khadatovich began to concentrate her career as a single sculler 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.

She then won both World Championship gold medals in 1997 and 1999 and married a German, where she took the name Karsten. She competed at her third Olympic Games in 2000 in Sydney, where she won gold in the single sculls event by one hundredth of one second over Rumyana Neykova of Bulgaria.

In 2001, Karsten won the Princess Royal Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta, rowing for the Minsk City Club and defeating German Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski in the final.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she won a silver medal in the single sculls, and a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing in the same event.

She also won the World Championships in the single sculls in 1997, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2009, earned silver in 2002 and 2010, and bronze in 2001 and 2003. She won the European Championships in 2009 and 2010. She won the World Junior Championships in 1990.

She reached the final of the single sculls event at the 2012 Summer Olympics and made it to the semi-finals of the same event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

See also

• List of multiple Summer Olympic medalists

External links

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