Tina Manker

Tina Manker
OLY
Manker in 2010
Personal information
Born3 March 1989 (1989-03-03) (age 35)
Ludwigsfelde, Bezirk Potsdam, East Germany
Alma materInternational Institute of Modern Letters, VUW, Wellington
Scientific career
Thesis
Medal record
Women's rowing
Representing  Germany
World Rowing Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Bled W4x
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Karapiro W4x
European Rowing Championships
Silver medal – second place 2010 Montemor-O-Velho W4x

Tina Manker (born 3 March 1989) is a German rower. She was junior world champion in 2006 (junior quad scull), U23 world championship (double scull), and world champion in the women's quad sculls elite class at the 2011 World Championships. She finished her rowing career after participating at the 2012 Summer Olympics in double scull. She trained as a teacher in German and English, first at the Humboldt University of Berlin and then at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. After several years teaching at Onslow College, where she also coached the rowing team, she now works for High Performance Sport New Zealand in Cambridge.

Early life and education

Manker was born in March 1989 in Ludwigsfelde, Brandenburg. At the time, this was East Germany but the German reunification happened the following year.[1][2] In 2000, she decided to enroll at Flatow-Oberschule, a sport school (Eliteschule des Sports [de]) supported by the German Olympic Sports Confederation[3] and in that year, she took up rowing. In 2008, she went to the Humboldt University of Berlin to become a teacher, majoring in German and English.[4][5] During 2013, she studied for a graduate diploma in teaching at Victoria University of Wellington, from which she graduated in 2014.[6] From 2018 to 2020, Manker was enrolled at the International Institute of Modern Letters, a centre of creative writing that is part of Victoria University of Wellington. She graduated with a Master of Arts, with her thesis titled New Zealand Young Adult Fiction: National Myths, Identity and Coming-of-age.[7]

Rowing career

What fascinates Manker about rowing is the constantly changing conditions of wind and water. She joined the Ruderklub am Wannsee [de] in Berlin.[4] At the 2006 World Rowing Junior Championships in Amsterdam, she became world champion in the junior quad scull. At the 2007 World Rowing Junior Championships in Beijing, she won silver in the single scull, beaten by the Chinese rower Zhu Weiwei. At the 2008 World Rowing U23 Championships in her native Brandenburg, she took the U23 world championship in the double scull alongside Sophie Dunsing [de].[8]

At the 2009 World Rowing Championships in Poznań, Poland, she missed the A-final and came second in the B-final in the double scull alongside Dunsing.[8] In 2010, she became German national champion in the double scull alongside Julia Richter, who is also a member of the Ruderklub am Wannsee.[9] At the 2010 European Rowing Championships in Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal, she won silver in the quad scull alongside Britta Oppelt, Carina Bär, and Richter. The same team won bronze at the 2010 World Rowing Championships on Lake Karapiro in New Zealand. At the 2011 World Rowing Championships, Manker, Richter, Stephanie Schiller and Oppelt won the gold medal in the women's quadruple sculls.[8] She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's double sculls with Stephanie Schiller where they came third in the B-final.[10] Soon after the Olympic Games finished, she said that she would put her rowing career on hold for some tertiary study at Victoria University of Wellington, but she never revived her rowing career.[11]

Professional career

After obtaining her teaching diploma in 2013, Manker taught English at Onslow College; the secondary school is located in Wellington's suburb of Johnsonville.[12] She was in charge of the school's rowing club.[13] She left Onslow College in 2021 and moved to High Performance Sport New Zealand, based in Cambridge at the rowing high performance centre.[14]

References

  1. ^ Tina Manker at Olympedia (archive)
  2. ^ "Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany London – A short history of German reunification". London.diplo.de (in German). Archived from the original on 7 June 2010. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  3. ^ "Siebenfünfundvierzig" (in German). Flatow-Oberschule. 14 September 2012. p. 5. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  4. ^ a b Radde, Gerlinde (20 January 2011). "Rudern als Leidenschaft" [Rowing as a passion]. Humboldt: Die Zeitung der Alma Mater Berolinensis (in German). 55 (4). Humboldt University of Berlin: 4. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  5. ^ Haase, Constanze (17 July 2012). "Auf nach London!" (in German). Informationsdienst Wissenschaft. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  6. ^ "Roll of graduates". Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  7. ^ Manker, Tina (2020). New Zealand Young Adult Fiction: National Myths, Identity and Coming-of-age (PDF) (Masters thesis). Open Access Repository Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington. doi:10.26686/wgtn.17144675.
  8. ^ a b c "Tina Manker". World Rowing Federation. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  9. ^ Danzglock, Dag (2 August 2010). "97. Deutsches Meisterschaftsrudern" (in German). Deutscher Ruderverband. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  10. ^ "Tina Manker Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2017.
  11. ^ "Leistungssport" [High performance sport] (PDF). Klub-Nachrichten des Ruderklub am Wannsee e.V. (in German). 104 (678). Ruderklub am Wannsee: 10. March–May 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  12. ^ "Onslow College :: Teaching Staff". www.onslow.school.nz. Retrieved 22 February 2017.[failed verification]
  13. ^ "NZSSRA school results: 2015 Aon North Island Secondary Schools". New Zealand Secondary Schools Rowing Association. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  14. ^ "Contact details – athlete life advisors" (PDF). Sport New Zealand. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
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