Brigitte Ahrenholz

Brigitte Ahrenholz was an East German rower who won an Olympic gold medal as a crew member of the women's eight at the 1976 Summer Olympics. She was born in Potsdam on 8 August 1952 and competed for East Germany. After her rowing career she studied medicine, graduated in 1983 and worked as a surgeon, first at the Vivantes Klinikum im Friedrichshain and later in Werder, where she continued in surgery until her retirement. She was last seen on the evening of 3 March 2018, was reported missing to the police the following morning and was found dead more than a month later, on 7 April 2018, at the age of 65. The source states that her cause of death was unknown at the time of writing.