Therese ZENZ

Therese Zenz was the only Olympian to represent Saar in 1952 and then the mixed German team in 1956 and 1960. She finished ninth in the K1 in 1952 and went on to win three silver medals, in the K1 in 1956 and 1960, and K2 in 1960. Competing in the K1 in 1954 she won Saar’s only gold medal ever at the World Championships in Mâcon, France. In 1958 (then for West Germany) she added two World bronze medals in the K1 and the K2, with her Olympic partner Ingrid Hartmann. From 1957-60 she was West German Champion four times in a row. In 1957 she was awarded the Silver Bay Leaf. At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics she coached the gold medal winners Roswitha Esser and Annemarie Zimmermann.