Bärbel Bendiks

{{Short description|German rower}}

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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 and second, respectively. However, that year women's rowing was introduced at the Olympic Games and the Olympic team members did not participate at the national championships.{{cite web |title= DDR-Rudermeisterschaften: Riemenvierer – Frauen (Plätze 1–3) | trans-title=GDR rowing championships: Four – women (places 1–3) | url=https://www.rrk-online.de/rudern/chronrudern/ddrmeist/ddr-f-rv.htm | publisher= Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klub 08 |accessdate=3 October 2018 | language=de | first=Wilfried | last=Hoffmann}}{{cite web |title= DDR-Rudermeisterschaften: Achter – Frauen (Plätze 1–3) | trans-title=GDR rowing championships: Eight – women (places 1–3) | url=https://www.rrk-online.de/rudern/chronrudern/ddrmeist/ddr-f-acht.htm | publisher= Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klub 08 |accessdate=3 October 2018 | language=de | first=Wilfried | last=Hoffmann}} At the 1977 East German national championships, Bendiks won the coxed four title alongside Marion Rohs, Katja Rothe, Ilona Richter, and coxswain Marina Wilke. That team went to the 1977 World Rowing Championships on the Bosbaan rowing lake in the Netherlands where they became world champions.{{cite web

| url = http://www.worldrowing.com/events/1977-world-championships/womens-coxed-four/

| title = 1977 World Rowing Championships: (W4+) Women's Coxed Four – Final

| website = WorldRowing.com

| publisher = International Rowing Federation

| accessdate = 3 October 2018

}} In February 1978, she was given two sports awards: Master of Sport and Honoured Master of Sports.{{cite news |title=Viele Berliner unter den Ausgezeichneten |trans-title=Many Berliners among the award winners |url=http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP26120215-19780207-0-11-190-0 |accessdate=3 October 2018 |work=Berliner Zeitung |volume=34 |issue=32 |date=7 February 1978 |page=11 |language=de |archive-date=3 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003061918/http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP26120215-19780207-0-11-190-0 |url-status=dead }}{{registration required}}

At the 1978 East German national championships, Bendiks came third with the coxed four and took out the national title with the women's eight. She went to the 1978 World Rowing Championships on Lake Karapiro in New Zealand as a reserve but did not compete.{{cite news |title=DDR-Ruderaufgebot für die Weltmeisterschaft |trans-title=GDR rowing team for the World Championship |url=http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP2532889X-19781011-0-5-76-0 |accessdate=3 October 2018 |work=Neues Deutschland |volume=33 |issue=240 |date=11 October 1978 |page=5 |language=de |archive-date=3 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003061912/http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP2532889X-19781011-0-5-76-0 |url-status=dead }}{{registration required}} It was at those championships that she got closer to one of the male rowers whom she later married; Uli Schmied was also present as a reserve.{{cite news |last1=Frank |first1=Jochen |title=Rudern macht suechtig |url=https://www.pressreader.com/germany/m%C3%A4rkische-oderzeitung-erkner/20170902/281831463875936 |accessdate=3 October 2018 |work=Märkische Oderzeitung Erkner |trans-title=Rowing makes you addicted |date=2 September 2017 |language=de}}

At the 1980 East German national championships, Bendiks came third with the women's eight; again, the Olympic team members were absent from that competition. At the 1981 East German national championships, Bendiks came third with the coxed four and took out the title with the women's eight. She went to the 1981 World Rowing Championships that were held near Munich in Germany where the women's eight came fifth.{{cite web |title= Bärbel Bendiks |url= http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/856/results/bendiks-baerbel |publisher=International Rowing Federation |accessdate=3 October 2018}}