[6] At the 1985 World Rowing Junior Championships in Brandenburg an der Havel, East Germany, she became junior world champion in the double scull partnered with Claudia Krüger with whom she had rowed since the beginning of the year;[7] they dominated the final from the start and were more than 12 seconds ahead of the silver medallists.

[8] Having won her second junior world championship title, Sorgers proclaimed that her biggest wish was to make it into the senior national 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.

[15] At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea, the women from East Germany dominated the rowing competition by winning five of the six events.

Sorgers won gold with the quad scull, alongside Kerstin Förster (née Pieloth), Kristina Mundt and Beate Schramm.

Early in the rowing season, they successfully competed against a team made of Jutta Behrendt (née Hampe) and Sybille Schmidt (Sorger's 1983 double scull partner).

The 1991 rowing season started with a national regatta for the small boat classes in Wedau where Sorgers competed in single scull and was beaten into second place by Schramm.

[22] A month later, an international regatta was held at the same venue where Sorgers teamed up with Sybille Schmidt in the double scull; they won their boat class by a margin of almost 8 seconds.

[23] The intention of the rowing officials had always been for Sorgers and Schmidt to be part of a quad scull for 1991 and after further qualification races, the 1990 team was reassembled, with Jana Thieme nearly having replaced Krüger.

[29] Sorgers retired after winning a final gold medal in quad scull with Rutschow, Köppen, and Kathrin Boron at the 1996 Summer Olympics.