Carola Zirzow

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Carola Zirzow

Bärbel Köster (left) and Carola Zirzow (right) while training in Montreal, 1976.
Medal record
Women's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
	1976 Montreal	K-1 500 m
	1976 Montreal	K-2 500 m
World Championships
	1974 Mexico City	K-4 500 m
	1975 Belgrade	K-2 500 m
	1975 Belgrade	K-4 500 m

Carola Zirzow (born 15 September 1954, in Prenzlau) is an East German sprint canoer who competed in the mid-1970s. She won two medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal with a gold in the K-1 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events.^[1]

Zirzow also won three gold medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with one in the K-2 500 m event (1975) and two in the K-4 500 m (1974, 1975).

• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Carola Zirzow". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.

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