Brigitte Amm

{{Short description|East German rower}}

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| caption = Amm at the 1966 European Championships

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| club = SCW DHfK Leipzig[http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/r/rudern/hst/113.html Rudern – DDR – Meisterschaften Damen]. sport-komplett.de

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{{MedalSport | Women's rowing }}

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{{MedalCompetition | European Rowing Championships }}

{{MedalSilver | 1961 Prague | Eight }}

{{MedalSilver | 1962 East Berlin | Eight }}

{{MedalSilver | 1963 Moscow | Eight }}

{{MedalSilver | 1964 Amsterdam | Coxed four }}

{{MedalGold | 1966 Amsterdam | Eight }}

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Brigitte Amm is a retired East German rower who won one gold and four silver medals at European championships between 1961 and 1966.

At the 1961 East German national championships she became national champion with the women's eight.{{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=8 October 2018 | language=de | first=Wilfried | last=Hoffmann}} The women's eight, made up solely of rowers from SCW DHfK Leipzig, was sent to the 1961 European Rowing Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where they won silver.{{cite web |last1=Heckert |first1=Karlheinz |title=Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Damen – Achter) |url= http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/r/rudern/hst/74.html |publisher=Sport Komplett |accessdate=7 October 2018 | language=de}} In December 1961, seven of the eight rowers were given a Master of Sport award (Gisela Schirmer and their coxswain missed out).{{cite news |title=Verdienstvolle Sportler wurden geehrt |trans-title=Meritorious athletes were honoured |url=http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP26120215-19611217-0-4-47-0 |accessdate=7 October 2018 |work=Berliner Zeitung |volume=17 |issue=346 |date=17 December 1961 |page=4 |language=de |url-access=registration |archive-date=7 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181007111425/http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ergebnisanzeige/?purl=SNP26120215-19611217-0-4-47-0 |url-status=dead }}