Thomas Flach

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Thomas Flach (born June 3, 1956 in Potsdam ) is a German sailor who competed for the German Democratic Republic until 1990 .

Thomas Flach began competitive sports in 1970. In 1979 he won his first GDR championship title in Soling together with Wolf-Eberhard Richter and Bernd Jäkel . The boat from SC Berlin-Grünau won two further championship titles in 1982 and 1983.

In 1985 Thomas Flach and Bernd Jäkel switched to Jochen Schümann . With second place at the European Sailing Championships in 1985, the three sailors began a twelve-year streak of success. By the end of the GDR, the three won an Olympic gold medal in Seoul in 1988 , a bronze medal at the 1986 World Championships, two European championship titles in 1986 and 1988, as well as silver in 1985, 1987 and 1990 and bronze in 1989. There were also four DDR championship titles from 1987 to 1990.

In 1991 Schümann, Flach and Jäkel continued their careers for reunified Germany and won silver at the world championships and bronze at the European championships in their first year. In 1992 they won the World Championships and came fourth at the Olympic Games in Barcelona . In 1993 and 1994 the crew won the European Championships, in 1996 they received the bronze medal at the World Championships and won gold for the second time at the Olympic Games in Atlanta .

After his international career he successfully sailed in the national 20 m² dinghy cruiser class and won in 2001; 2003; 2004 and 2005, as well as the helmsman from 2007 to 2009 the German championships and from 2013 to 2018 the German Open. He also won in 2000; 2004; 2008; 2010 the Euro-Cup for this boat class. In 2015, together with Jochen Schümann and Ingo Borkowski, 29 years after his first title, he again won the European Championship in the international Soling class.

The 1.86 m tall Thomas Flach is a graduate economist, lives in Berlin and has been chairman of a Berlin sailing club since 1999.

literature

  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Atlanta 96. The German Olympic team. Frankfurt am Main 1996 p. 579
  • Volker Kluge : Lexicon athletes in the GDR. New life, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-355-01759-6 . P. 107.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ GDR championships in the international classes
personal data
SURNAME Flat, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sailor
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam