Carina Bär

{{Short description|German rower (born 1990)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2017}}

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{{MedalSport|Women's rowing}}

{{MedalCountry|{{GER}}}}

{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}

{{MedalGold|2016 Rio de Janeiro|Quadruple sculls}}

{{MedalSilver|2012 London|Quadruple sculls}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalGold|2013 Chungjiu| Quadruple sculls}}

{{MedalGold|2014 Amsterdam| Quadruple sculls}}

{{MedalSilver|2015 Aiguebelette| Quadruple sculls}}

{{MedalBronze|2010 Karapiro| Quadruple sculls}}

{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}

{{MedalGold|2013 Seville| Quadruple sculls}}

{{MedalGold|2015 Poznan| Quadruple sculls}}

{{MedalGold|2016 Brandenburg| Quadruple sculls}}

{{MedalSilver|2010 Montemor-o-velho| Quadruple sculls}}

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Carina Bär (also spelled Baer; born 23 January 1990 in Heilbronn) is a German rower. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro she competed in the women's quadruple sculls competition in which the German team (Bär, Annekatrin Thiele, Julia Lier and Lisa Schmidla) won the gold medal.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rio2016.com/en/rowing-standings-ro-womens-quadruple-sculls |title=Women's Quadruple Sculls |website=Rio2016.com |publisher=Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games |access-date=5 September 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160901201556/https://www.rio2016.com/en/rowing-standings-ro-womens-quadruple-sculls |archivedate=1 September 2016 }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldrowing.com/|title=2016 OLYMPIC GAMES REGATTA - Rio de Janeiro, BRA - (W4x) Women's Quadruple Sculls - Final|date=11 August 2016|website=worldrowing.com|language=en-US|access-date=13 January 2019}} She had previous won the silver medal in the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/carina-bar-1.html |title=Carina Bär |access-date=2019-01-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161202213526/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/carina-bar-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-12-02}}

At the World level, Bär won the 2013 title with Thiele, Julia Richter and Britta Oppelt.{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldrowing.com/|title=2013 WORLD ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS -Chungju, KOR - (W4x) Women's Quadruple Sculls - Final|date=31 August 2013|website=worldrowing.com|language=en-US|access-date=13 January 2019}} Bär, Thiele, Schmidla and Lier won the 2014 World Championships in a world's best time (which remains the world's best time in January 2019).{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldrowing.com/|title=2014 WORLD ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS -Amsterdam, NED - (W4x) Women's Quadruple Sculls - Final|date=30 August 2014|website=worldrowing.com|language=en-US|access-date=13 January 2019}} The team of Bär, Thiele, Schmidla and Marie-Catherine Arnold won the silver medal at the 2015 World Championship in the women's quadruple sculls.{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldrowing.com/|title=2015 WORLD ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS -Aiguebelette, FRA - (W4x) Women's Quadruple Sculls - Final|date=5 September 2015|website=worldrowing.com|language=en-US|access-date=13 January 2019}} Bär also has a World bronze medal from 2010 (with Oppelt, Richter and Tina Manker).{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldrowing.com/|title=2010 WORLD ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS -Karapiro, NZL - (W4x) Women's Quadruple Sculls - Final|date=5 November 2010|website=worldrowing.com|language=en-US|access-date=13 January 2019}}

At the European level, the team of Bär, Thiele, Schmidla and Arnold won the 2015 and 2016 European Championship in the women's quadruple sculls, the latter on home water in Brandenburg.{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldrowing.com/|title=2015 EUROPEAN ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS -Poznan, POL - (W4x) Women's Quadruple Sculls - Final|date=31 May 2015|website=worldrowing.com|language=en-US|access-date=13 January 2019}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldrowing.com/|title=2016 EUROPEAN ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS -Brandenburg, GER - (W4x) Women's Quadruple Sculls - Final|date=8 May 2016|website=worldrowing.com|language=en-US|access-date=13 January 2019}} Bär had previous won the European title with Thiele, Richter and Oppelt in 2013.{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldrowing.com/|title=2013 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS - Seville, ESP -(W4x) Women's Quadruple Sculls - Final|date=2 June 2013|website=worldrowing.com|language=en-US|access-date=13 January 2019}} In 2010 she was part of the German women's quadruple sculls team that finished second.{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldrowing.com/|title=2010 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS - Montemor-o-Velho, POR - (W4x) Women's Quadruple Sculls - Final|date=12 September 2010|website=worldrowing.com|language=en-US|access-date=13 January 2019}}

At Junior level, Bär won a silver in the single sculls at the 2011 World Under 23 Championships, having won a bronze in 2009.{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldrowing.com/|title=2011 UNDER 23 WORLD ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS - Amsterdam, NED - (BW1x) U23 Women's Single Sculls - Final|date=24 July 2011|website=worldrowing.com|language=en-US|access-date=13 January 2019}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldrowing.com/|title=2009 UNDER 23 WORLD ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS - Racice, CZE - (BW1x) U23 Women's Single Sculls - Final|date=26 July 2009|website=worldrowing.com|language=en-US|access-date=13 January 2019}} She also won the women's Junior Single Sculls World title in 2008.{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldrowing.com/|title=2008 WORLD ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS - Linz Ottensheim, AUT - (JW1x) Junior Women's Single Sculls - Final|date=26 July 2008|website=worldrowing.com|language=en-US|access-date=13 January 2019}}