Jutta Behrendt

Jutta Behrendt, born Jutta Hampe in Berlin on 15 November 1960, is a German competition rower who became both a world champion and an Olympic champion. She represented SC Dynamo Berlin and the Sportvereinigung Dynamo, and won the gold medal in the single sculls at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. In October 1986 she was awarded the Star of People's Friendship in gold, second class, for her sporting success. In the 1987 season Martina Schröter, who had returned after a break, displaced her from the single scull, and she joined the quad scull team in the place of Kerstin Hinze. She competed under her maiden name, Hampe, until the end of the 1987 season and had married by mid-October 1987. Her husband, Dirk Behrendt, is a rowing trainer.