Andreas Steels
Andreas Stähle (born February 14, 1965 in Halle (Saale) ) is a former German canoeist and current trainer . He won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics .
Sports career
Andreas Stähle came second in the Children's and Youth Spartakiad in 1981 and won the European Junior Championships in single and four-person kayaks . The canoeist began paddling at the "BSG Aktivist Halle Süd" (today "Hallescher Kanu-Club 54 eV") and then switched to the SC DHfK Leipzig and competed in the adult class for the first time in 1983 and became a four-kayak straight away World Champion. After Stähle missed out on the 1984 Olympics because of the GDR's Olympic boycott , he became the first German to win the world championship title in a single kayak over 500 m in 1985. In 1986, Stähle received his third gold medal at world championships, this time again in a foursome. In 1987 he won the silver medal behind New Zealander Paul MacDonald in the single . In the following year, Stähle was clearly defeated by the Hungarian Zsolt Gyulay in the Olympic canoe competitions over 500 meters , but won silver from Paul MacDonald. With the four-person kayak, Stähle won his second Olympic medal with bronze. In 1990 he received a silver medal at the World Championships in Poznan.
Steels was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold in 1986 and silver in 1984 and 1988.
After the fall of the Wall , Andreas Stähle moved to Baden-Württemberg, where he was the trainer of the Stuttgart canoe community.
International medals
- 1983 world championship
- Bronze in a single kayak over 500 meters
- Gold in a four-kayak over 500 meters with Peter Hempel , Harald Marg and Rüdiger Helm
- Silver in a four-kayak over 1000 meters with Peter Hempel, Harald Marg and Rüdiger Helm
- 1985 World Championship
- Gold in a single kayak over 500 meters
- 1986 world championship
- Gold in a four-kayak over 500 meters with Frank Fischer , André Wohllebe and Jens Fiedler
- 1987 World Championship
- Silver in a single kayak over 500 meters
- 1988 Olympic Games
- Silver in a single kayak over 500 meters
- Bronze in a four-kayak over 1000 meters with André Wohllebe, Kay Bluhm and Hans-Jörg Bliesener
- 1990 World Championship
- Silver in a four-kayak over 500 meters with Mathias Hoppe , Uwe Münch and André Wohllebe
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 .
Web links
- Andreas Stähle in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Successes of the canoeists of the SC DHfK Leipzig ( Memento from December 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- World championships 500 meters
- World Championships 1000 meters
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 15, 1986, p. 7
- ^ New Germany, 1./2. September 1984, p. 4
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, 12./13. November 1988, p. 4
- ^ KG Stuttgart ( Memento from May 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steels, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German canoeist and trainer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle (Saale) |