Anton Rome

Carl Anton "Toni" Rom (born March 10, 1909 in Würzburg ; † December 30, 1994 there ) was a German rower . In 1936 he became Olympic champion in the four-man without a helmsman .

Rome won its first German championship title in 1933 with the eighth of the Würzburg rowing club from 1875 . In the following year Rudolf Eckstein , Anton Rom, Martin Karl and Wilhelm Menne switched to the four-man without a helmsman and, after winning the German championship, also won the European championship in Lucerne. In 1935 Martin Karl was missing, Ernst Gaber from Mannheim RV was on the boat for him . The four rowers won the German championship in both a four-man without and a four-man with a helmsman . Together with helmsman Johann Pfadenhauer they also won the European Championships in Berlin. In 1936 Martin Karl returned to the boat. Eckstein, Rom, Karl and Menne also won the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin after two European championships and received the Golden City Plaque from the city of Würzburg .

literature

• Bodo Harenberg (ed.): The stars of the sport from A-Z . Darmstadt 1970.
• The third 25 years: 1933–1957 (modern times). In: 125 years of BRV. Rowing Association, pp. 22-27 ( PDF ).

Web links

• German successes at European Championships with photos by Toni Rom
• Anton Rom in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )