Anatoli Fomitsch Sass

Anatoly Sass
Full name	Anatoli Fomitsch Sass
nation	Soviet Union , Russia
birthday	December 22, 1935
place of birth	Moscow ,  Soviet Union
size	188 cm
Weight	84 kg
Career
discipline	rowing
society	Trud Moskva Spartak Moskva
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic Summer Games 1 × 0 × 0 × European Rowing Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Mexico 1968 Double scull  European championships silver Duisburg 1965 One

Anatoli Fomitsch Sass ( Russian Анатолий Фомич Сасс ; born December 22, 1935 in Moscow ) is a former Soviet rower and Olympic champion.

Career

Sass, who rowed for Trud Moscow and Spartak Moscow , had already started at the 1964 Summer Olympics in a four-man without a helmsman with Celestinas Jucys , Eugenijus Levickas and Jonas Motiejūnas from the Lithuanian SSR . However, the team missed the final and finished 7th in the overall ranking. In the following year, Sass switched to the single and started at the European Championships in Duisburg, where he won the silver medal behind the West German rower Jochen Meißner . Two years later he also won the Soviet rowing championships in this discipline, before he formed a double scull for the 1968 Olympic season with Alexander Timoshinin, who was twelve years his junior . The duo won the Soviet championship title and later the gold medal at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City on the regatta course in Xochimilco with a one-second lead over the Dutch Henricus Droog and Leendert van Dis .

After winning the Olympic gold medal, Sass was awarded the Merit Master of Sports of the USSR and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor in 1968 .

successes

Olympic games

• 1968 : Gold in a double scull
• 1964 : 7th place in the four without a helmsman

European championships

• 1965 : silver in one

Soviet championships

• 1968: Gold in a double scull
• 1967: gold in one

Awards

• 1968: Honored Master of Sports of the USSR
• 1968: Order of the Red Banner of Labor

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 .

Web links

• Anatoli Fomitsch Sass in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Anatoli Fomitsch Sass at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Anatoli Sass ( Memento from December 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) in the Great Olympic Encyclopedia (Russian)
• Biography on mfsospartak.ru (Russian)
• Олимпийский чемпион Анатолий Сасс отмечает 80-летие. aquaschool-kolpino.ru, December 22, 2015, accessed February 3, 2016 (Russian). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Sass Anatoliy Fomich. In: viperson.ru. July 1, 2015, accessed February 3, 2016 (Russian). 
2. ^ 1968 Olympic Games. In: www.worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, accessed on February 4, 2016 (English). 
3. ↑ European Rowing Championships (men's singles). In: www.sport-komplett.de. Retrieved February 4, 2016 .