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{{Short description|Belarusian rower (born 1972)}}
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{{Infobox sportsperson
|name= Ekaterina Karsten<br>(née Khadatovich)
|image=W1x final (5177766737) Ekaterina Karsten.jpg
|caption=Karsten at the 2010 World Championships
|birth_date= 2 June 1972
|birth_place= Asechyna, [[Belarus]]
| death_date =
| death_place = 
|sport=Rowing
|event= single sculls
|club= Minsk City Club
| show-medals    = yes
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{{MedalSport|Women's [[Rowing (sport)|rowing]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Rowing at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
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{{MedalGold|[[1996 Summer Olympics|1996 Atlanta]]|[[Rowing at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's single sculls|Single sculls]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2000 Summer Olympics|2000 Sydney]]|[[Rowing at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's single sculls|Single sculls]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Athens]]|[[Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's single sculls|Single sculls]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2008 Summer Olympics|2008 Beijing]]|[[Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's single sculls|Single sculls]]}}
{{MedalCountry|{{EUN}}}}
{{MedalBronze|[[1992 Summer Olympics|1992 Barcelona]]|[[Rowing at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's quadruple sculls|Quadruple sculls]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[World Rowing Championships|World Championships]]}}
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{{MedalGold|[[1997 World Rowing Championships|1997 Aiguebelette-le-Lac]]|Single sculls}}
{{MedalGold|[[1999 World Rowing Championships|1999 St. Catharines]]|Single sculls}}
{{MedalGold|[[2005 World Rowing Championships|2005 Kaizu]]|Single sculls}}
{{MedalGold|[[2006 World Rowing Championships|2006 Dorney]]|Single sculls}}
{{MedalGold|[[2007 World Rowing Championships|2007 Oberschleißheim]]|Single sculls}}
{{MedalGold|[[2009 World Rowing Championships|2009 Poznań]]|Single sculls}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2002 World Rowing Championships|2002 Seville]]|Single sculls}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2003 World Rowing Championships|2003 Milan]]|Quadruple sculls}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2010 World Rowing Championships|2010 Cambridge]]|Single sculls}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2011 World Rowing Championships|2011 Bled]]|Single sculls}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2001 World Rowing Championships|2001 Lucerne]]|Single sculls}}
{{MedalBronze|2001 Lucerne|Double sculls}}
{{MedalBronze|2002 Seville|Quadruple sculls}}
{{MedalBronze|2003 Milan|Single sculls}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2013 World Rowing Championships|2013 Chungju]]|Double sculls}}
{{MedalCountry|{{URS}}}}
{{MedalBronze|[[1991 World Rowing Championships|1991 Vienna]]|Double sculls}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[World Rowing Junior Championships|World Junior Championships]]}}
{{MedalCountry|{{URS}}}}
{{MedalGold|1990 Aiguebelette-le-Lac|Single sculls}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[European Rowing Championships|European Championships]]}}
{{MedalCountry|{{BLR}}}}
{{MedalGold|[[2014 European Rowing Championships|2014 Belgrade]]|Quadruple sculls}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2017 European Rowing Championships|2017 Račice]]|Single sculls}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Head of the Schuylkill Regatta#Philadelphia Gold Cup Challenge|Gold Cup Challenge]]}}
{{MedalCountry|{{BLR}}}}
{{MedalSilver|[[Head of the Schuylkill Regatta#Philadelphia Gold Cup Challenge|2011 Philadelphia]]|Single sculls}}
}}

'''Ekaterina Karsten''' (née '''Khadatovich''', Хадатовіч; {{langx|be|Кацярына Карстэн}}, ''Kaciaryna Karsten''; {{langx|ru|Екатерина Карстен}}; born 2 June 1972) is a [[Belarus|Belarusian]] rower, a seven-time Olympian and the first medalist from the Republic of Belarus,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/sports/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/karsten-ekaterina |title=Ekaterina Karsten |website=encyclopedia.com}}</ref> a two-time Olympic champion and six-time World Champion in the [[single scull]].

== Biography ==
At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, under her maiden name of Khadatovich, she competed in her first Olympic Games in the [[Rowing at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's quadruple sculls|women's quadruple sculls]] as part of the [[Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics]] due to the recent [[Dissolution of the Soviet Union]], winning the bronze medal.

Khadatovich began to concentrate her career as a single sculler and by the start of the [[1996 Summer Olympics]] in Atlanta, she had established herself as a major contender for the [[Rowing at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's single sculls|women's Olympic single sculls]]. She claimed gold, winning the final in a time of 7:32.31.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1996/ROW/womens-single-sculls.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418124358/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1996/ROW/womens-single-sculls.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Rowing at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Women's Single Sculls |work=Sports Reference |accessdate=20 September 2018}}</ref>

She then won both World Championship gold medals in 1997 and 1999 and married a German, where she took the name ''Karsten''. She competed at her third Olympic Games in [[2000 Summer Olympics|2000]] in [[Sydney]], where she won gold in the [[Rowing at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's single sculls|single sculls]] event by one hundredth of one second over [[Rumyana Neykova]] of Bulgaria.

In 2001, Karsten won the [[Princess Royal Challenge Cup]] at the [[Henley Royal Regatta]], rowing for the Minsk City Club and defeating German [[Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski]] in the final.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hrr.co.uk/results/?result-page=1&trophy=the-diamond-challenge-sculls |title=Diamond Challenge Sculls, List of past winners |website=Henley Royal Regatta |access-date=5 August 2024}}</ref>

At the [[2004 Summer Olympics]] in [[Athens]], she won a silver medal in the [[Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's single sculls|single sculls]], and a bronze medal at the [[2008 Summer Olympics]] in [[Beijing]] in the [[Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's single sculls|same event]].<ref>{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Yekaterina Khodatovich-Karsten |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/kh/yekaterina-khodatovich-karsten-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203103722/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/kh/yekaterina-khodatovich-karsten-1.html |archive-date=3 December 2016}}</ref> 

She also won the World Championships in the single sculls in 1997, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2009, earned silver in 2002 and 2010, and bronze in 2001 and 2003. She won the European Championships in 2009 and 2010. She won the [[World Rowing Junior Championships|World Junior Championships]] in 1990.

She reached the final of the [[Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's single sculls|single sculls]] event at the [[2012 Summer Olympics]] and made it to the semi-finals of the same event at the [[2016 Summer Olympics]].

== See also ==
* [[List of multiple Summer Olympic medalists]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{sports links}}
* {{NOC Belarus|karsten-khodotovich-ekaterina-anatolevna-greblya-akademicheskaya|Ekaterina Karsten (Khodotovich)}}

{{Olympic champions – Women's single sculls}}
{{World champions – Women's single sculls}}

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