Therese Zenz
Appearance
![]() Zenz (left) at the 1960 Olympics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Merzig, Germany | 15 October 1932||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 22 October 2019 Merzig | (aged 87)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 165 cm (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Canoeing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Kanufreunde Mettlach | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Theresia Maria “Therese” Zenz (15 October 1932 – 22 October 2019) was a Saar-born German sprint canoer. She took part in the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympics and won three silver medals for the United Team of Germany in 1956 and 1960. At the 1952 games she competed for Saar and finished ninth in the K-1 500 metres event. She later became a coach for the West German team.
Zenz won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 500 m: 1954 for Saar) and two bronzes (K-1 500 m and K-2 500 m: both 1958 for West Germany).
References
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- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 January 2010)
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 9 November 2009)
- Therese Zenz's profile at Sports Reference.com
- Therese Zenz's obituary
Categories:
- 1932 births
- 2019 deaths
- People from Merzig-Wadern
- Canoeists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- West German female canoeists
- Olympic canoeists for Saar
- Olympic canoeists for the United Team of Germany
- Olympic silver medalists for the United Team of Germany
- Olympic medalists in canoeing
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
- Sportspeople from Saarland
- German canoeing Olympic medalist stubs