Birgit Fischer (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Birgit Fischer is a kayaker, who has won eight gold medals over six different Olympic Games, a record she shares with Aladar Gerevich, spanning seven Olympiads: twice representing East Germany, then four times representing the reunited nation. After both the 1988 and 2000 games, she announced her retirement, only to return for the subsequent games. She has been both the youngest- and oldest-ever Olympic canoeing champion. In 2004 she was voted German sportswoman of the year