Adolf Möller (rower)
Adolf Möller (born October 25, 1877 in Hamburg ; † November 10, 1968 there ) was a German rower who took third place with the four-man with helmsman at the 1900 Olympic Games.
At the Olympic Games in 1900 , the first Olympic rowing competitions were held on the Seine in Paris. The Hamburg rowing club Favorite Hammonia sent a foursome with the rowers Hugo Rüster , Wilhelm Carstens , Julius Körner and Adolf Möller. In his run-up on August 25, the four-man with the helmsman Max Ammermann took third place behind the other four-man from Hamburg from the Hamburg and Germania Ruder Club and the boat from Roubaix. According to the announcement, the three preliminary winners and the fastest second, that would have been the boat from Roubaix, should make it to the final. But since the boat from Lyon as second in the second heat and the boat from Hammonia in third in the third heat were faster than the winning boat in the first heat, there were protests against the final composition. Therefore there should be an elimination race on August 26th. In this race the boat from Hammonia, this time with Egmont Zahn as helmsman, took third place behind the boats from Roubaix and Lyon.
Since not all teams had been informed about the elimination race, some boats were missing, including the four from Germania Hamburg. The decision was then made to count the result of the elimination race as the official final result and to organize another official final on August 27th for the three boats that had missed this race. This compromise means that there will be two official finals for the 1900 Olympic Games with official Olympic champions, Olympic champions and Olympic thirds.
The rowers from the Favorite Hammonia rowing club were the first German medalists in rowing and they also received bronze plaques. Due to the victory of the Germania four on the following day, the attention for the third-placed finishers in the first final was limited.
Adolf Möller was the youngest rower in the foursome of Favorite Hammonia, he later moved to Berlin and won the German championship in 1907 with the foursome of the Berlin RK Hellas .
literature
- Bodo Harenberg (ed.): The stars of the sport from A-Z . Habel, Berlin et al. 1970.
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .
- Karl Lennartz , Walter Teutenberg: II. Olympic Games 1900 in Paris. Presentation and sources. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1995, ISBN 3-928562-20-7 .
Web links
- Adolf Möller in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- German champions in four with helmsman
Individual evidence
- ↑ Volker Kluge, page 111f, note 201
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Möller, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1968 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |