Ute Schell-Wagner-Stange

Rower Ute Stange was a member of the East German eights that won the gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Four years later at Barcelona, now named Ute Wagner, she added a bronze medal with the re-unified German eights. At Atlanta under the name Ute Schell, she finished a disappointing eighth, and last, again with the eights.

At World Championships, Schell-Wagner-Stange won silver medals with the eights in 1985 and 1986, a gold medal with the coxed fours in 1989, and then with the re-unified eights, won a bronze in 1993 and another gold medal in 1994.

Domestically, Schell-Wagner-Stange won national titles with the eights in 1985-86, 1988, and 1990, and also with Gerlinde Doberschütz in the coxless pairs in 1986. From 1992-96 she won five consecutive German national titles with the eights. In 1989, she also won the coxless fours national title. Her second husband was West German rowing coach Wolfgang Schell. By profession she worked for a health insurance company.