Tina Manker
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| Born | 3 March 1989 (age 36) Ludwigsfelde, Bezirk Potsdam, East Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | International Institute of Modern Letters, VUW, Wellington | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tina Manker (born 3 March 1989) is a German rower. She was junior world champion in 2006 (junior quad scull), U23 world championship (double scull), and world champion in the women's quad sculls elite class at the 2011 World Championships. She finished her rowing career after participating at the 2012 Summer Olympics in double scull. She trained as a teacher in German and English, first at the Humboldt University of Berlin and then at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. After several years teaching at Onslow College, where she also coached the rowing team, she now works for High Performance Sport New Zealand in Cambridge.