Marion Rohs is a rower who competed for East Germany in the 1970s. At the 1976 East German national championships, Rohs teamed up with Vanadies Lippold and they came second in the

coxless pair A coxless pair is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for two rowers, who propel the boat with sweep oars. The crew consists of a pair of rowers, each having one oar, one on the stroke side (rower's right h ...

; it was, however, the year that women's rowing was introduced at the

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...

and the Olympic team members did not participate at the national championships. At the 1977 East German national championships, Rohs won the coxed four title alongside

Bärbel Bendiks Bärbel Bendiks is a rower who competed for East Germany in the 1970s and early 1980s. Bendiks rowed for SC Berlin-Grünau. At the 1976 East German national championships, Bendiks rowed with the coxed pair and the women's eight; she came first a ...

, Katja Rothe,

Ilona Richter Ilona Richter (later Dörfel, born 11 March 1953) is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics, winning gold at both occasions. Richter was born in Neukirchen, Erzgebirgskreis in 1 ...

, and coxswain

Marina Wilke Marina Wilke (later Jährling, born 28 February 1958) is a German rowing cox who competed for East Germany in the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics. Rowing career She was born in Berlin. She competed for . At the 1975 World Rowing Championships ...

. That team went to the

1977 World Rowing Championships The 1977 World Rowing Championships was the 6th World Rowing Championships. The championships were held from 19 to 28 August 1977 on the Bosbaan rowing lake in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Medal summary About 556 rowers from 28 countries competed ...

on the

Bosbaan The Bosbaan is a rowing lake situated in the Amsterdamse Bos (Amsterdam Forest) in Amstelveen, Netherlands. Amstelveen is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands and is part of the metropolitan area of Amsterdam. Confusingly, all built struc ...

rowing lake in the Netherlands where they became world champions. In February 1978, she was given two sports awards: Master of Sport and Honored Master of Sports. Rohs travelled as a reserve to the

1978 World Rowing Championships Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...

in New Zealand but did not compete.

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* Year of birth missing East German female rowers World Rowing Championships medalists for East Germany Recipients of the Master of Sport Possibly living people {{Germany-rowing-bio-stub