Andreas Dittmer

Andreas Dittmer
nation	Germany
birthday	16th April 1972 (age 48)
place of birth	Neustrelitz ,  GDR
job	Savings bank economist
Career
discipline	Canoe racing
Boat class	Canadians (C1, C2)
society	SC Neubrandenburg
Trainer	Jürgen Lickfett
status	resigned
End of career	2008
Medal table
Olympic medals 3 × 1 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold 1996 Atlanta Two-person canoe 1000 m gold 2000 Sydney Single canoe 1000 m bronze 2000 Sydney Single canoe 500 m silver 2004 Athens Single canoe 1000 m gold 2004 Athens Single canoe 500 m
last change: April 26, 2020

Andreas Dittmer (born April 16, 1972 in Neustrelitz , GDR ) is a former German canoeist , multiple world champion and three-time Olympic champion .

Career

Dittmer started in canoe racing and has been one of the world's best since 1991. Between 1994 and 2008 he was world champion eight times in single and two-man Canadians . At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , he won his first Olympic gold medal in the two-man canoe over 1000 m with Gunar Kirchbach . Then Dittmer concentrated exclusively on the singles competitions and won the gold medal in the singles over 1000 m at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney . On the sprint course over 500 m, he was also able to win the bronze medal in Sydney.

In 2003 he was double world champion in the single canoe over 500 and 1000 m in Gainesville, USA . This of course made him a top favorite for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens . In his parade discipline over 1000 m, he was initially only able to win the silver medal. He was defeated by the Spaniard David Cal by four tenths in the final run . But a day later, Dittmer became Olympic champion for the third time when he won the 500 m sprint and left David Cal second.

The successes in numbers:

• four times participation in Summer Olympics
• three-time Olympic champion in 1996, 2000, 2004, 1 × silver, 1 × bronze
• eight-time world champion: 1994, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2 × 2003 and 2 × 2005
• With 30 World Championship medals and 46 German championship titles, he is the most successful Canadian driver of all time
• In 2018 he became Canadian champion in the C15 (Warcanoe) over the 1000 m distance

Private

Andreas Dittmer is a banker and savings bank economist and started for SC Neubrandenburg . Since 2004 he has been an honorary citizen of the city of Neubrandenburg . He has also been committed to promoting young talent for many years. So he has z. In 2006, for example, a youth camp was organized and carried out at the national performance center Kienbaum (near Berlin) and in 2007 in Sabaudia, Italy.

Andreas Dittmer ended his active career in 2008 and worked for the German Savings Banks and Giro Association until 2018. Since March 2018 he has worked as a national trainer for the Canadian Canoe Association.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics , he was on site as an ambassador for the “ MV tut gut .” Campaign in his home state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and recorded his impressions in an online diary.

Dittmer's younger sister Anja (* 1975) was one of the most successful German triathletes .

Awards

• 1996, 2001, 2005: Silver bay leaf
• 2000: Pierre de Coubertin Prize from the International Fair Play Committee
• 2001: Champion of the year
• 2004: Bambi Category Sport with the Olympic Canoe Racing Team for the successes at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens
• 2005: Sportsman of the Year ; Sparkasse special price role models in sport
• 2018: Induction into the Hall of Fame of German Sports

literature

• Short biography for:  Dittmer, Andreas . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Literature about Andreas Dittmer in the state bibliography MV
• Andreas Dittmer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official website
• Portrait on the DKV website
• Olympic diary 2012

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dittmer Andreas. German Canoe Association, 2008, archived from the original on December 5, 2017 ; accessed on September 14, 2019 (original website no longer available). 
2. ↑ 2018 Canadian Sprint Canoe Kayak Championships. (PDF; 3.3 MB) August 28 - September 1 • Sherbrooke, QC - Official Results. Canoe Kayak Canada, 2018, accessed September 17, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Sparkasse in the morning, Olympia in the evening. Archived from the original on December 6, 2017 ; Retrieved September 17, 2019 (original website no longer available). 
4. ^ Andreas Dittmer: Online diary. Andreas Dittmer, 2012, archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; Retrieved September 17, 2019 (original website no longer available).