East German rower Sabine Jahn won the silver medal partnering Petra Boesler in the double sculls at the 1976 Montréal Olympics. They also won the silver medal at the 1975 World Championships and won gold at the East German nationals that same year. Jahn had already won national titles from 1972-74 with the quadruple sculls. In 1973, she also won the Europeans in this event, and in 1977 added the quadruple sculls World title.
Jahn later married her teammate Reinhard Gust but later divorced. By profession, she became a graduated physician, specialising in radiology, and moved to Hamburg to run her own practice.
East Germany