Hans-Peter Koppe

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Hans-Peter Koppe (born February 2, 1958 in Leipzig ) is a former rower from the GDR. 1980 Koppe was Olympic champion in the eighth .

The rower from SC DHfK Leipzig won the 1975 Junior World Championships in the eighth and in 1976 in the four-man without a helmsman . At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , the GDR eighth in the line-up Bernd Krauss , Hans-Peter Koppe, Ulrich Kons , Jörg Friedrich , Jens Doberschütz , Ulrich Karnatz , Uwe Dühring and batsman Bernd Höing with Klaus-Dieter Ludwig as helmsman with almost won three seconds ahead of the second-placed British. For this success he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In 1981 Doberschütz and Koppe switched to the four without a helmsman and, together with Uwe Gasch and Klaus Büttner, were third in the world championship in Munich. In 1982 Koppe and Doberschütz were back in eighth position in the GDR and became vice world champions in Lucerne.

Koppe is a mechanical engineer and has been working as an insurance and construction finance advisor since 2002.

literature

  • Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 , p. 302.

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Individual evidence

  1. Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 3