Having won her second junior world championship title, Sorgers proclaimed that her biggest wish was to make it into the senior national team. At the beginning of the next season, she was chosen by chief women's coach Jürgen Gröbler for the team.[9] Having just turned 19—the second-youngest on the East German team with Andreas Hajek a few months younger—she won her first senior world championship title at the 1986 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham in the United Kingdom in the quad scull alongside Kerstin Pieloth, Birgit Peter and Kerstin Hinze.[9][10] In October 1986, she was awarded a Patriotic Order of Merit in gold (first class) for her sporting success.[11] The team repeated this success at the 1987 World Rowing Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, with Jutta Hampe having replaced Hinze and despite Hampe having caught a crab early in the final.[12][13][14]