At the 1963 European Rowing Championships in Moscow, she won a silver medal in the coxed quad sculls event with a team from Berliner TSC.[1][2] At the 1964 European Rowing Championships in Amsterdam, she won a gold medal in the same boat class but with different team members apart from Antje Thiess; this time the rowers came from several clubs.[3] Since women's rowing had formally become a part of the European Rowing Championships in 1954, this was only the second time that East Germany had won this boat class (the previous occasion had been in 1960), with all other titles having gone to the Soviet Union.[1] The team remained in the same composition for the 1965 rowing season and at the annual regatta for Eastern Bloc countries held at the Grünau Regatta Course, the coxed quad scull team beat the boat from the Soviet Union by two lengths.[4] All East German teams stayed away from the 1965 European Rowing Championships held in Duisburg, West Germany.[5]