Jana Sorgers

Representing Reunified Germany The 1991 rowing season started with a national regatta for the small boat classes in Wedau where Sorgers competed in single scull and was beaten into second place by Schramm. A month later, an international regatta was held at the same venue where Sorgers teamed up with Sybille Schmidt in the double scull; they won their boat class by a margin of almost 8 seconds. The intention of the rowing officials had always been for Sorgers and Schmidt to be part of a quad scull for 1991 and after further qualification races, the 1990 team was reassembled, with Jana Thieme nearly having replaced Krüger. At the 1991 World Rowing Championships in Vienna, Austria, the quad scullers defended their world championship title.

In the 1992 season, Sorgers had a performance low. but then did not make the 1992 national team selection. She thus missed out qualification for the 1992 Summer Olympics. In 1993, Sorgers changed club and moved to SG Dynamo Potsdam but did not make it back into the national team.

Sorgers made a comeback in the 1994 season. She made it back into the national team and with the quad scull, she won her sixth world championship title at the 1994 World Rowing Championships in Indianapolis, United States. The other team members that year were Mundt, Katrin Rutschow, and Kerstin Köppen-Kosbab. At the 1995 World Rowing Championships in Tampere, Finland, the quad scull defended its championship title, with Thieme having replaced Mundt. After her retirement, she was awarded the Thomas Keller Medal.

National championships In the GDR, Sorgers won her first national title in 1986 in the quad scull. In 1988, she became national champion in both the double and the quad scull. In 1989, she retained her title in the double scull. In 1990, she won her final East German title with the quad scull.

After the reunification, Sorgers won four national titles in quad scull: in 1991, 1994, 1995, and 1996.

Life outside rowing Sorgers trained as a medical technical assistant from 1984. In 1991, she trained to become a beautician.

She married rower Oliver Rau some time after her retirement from competitive rowing and has since been known as Jana Sorgers-Rau.

The couple have twin daughters (born 2000) He now works for and they live in Bremen.