Bahne raven

Bahne Rabe (born August 7, 1963 in Hamburg , † August 5, 2001 in Kiel ) was a German rowing athlete . As a batsman in the Germany eight he won the gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , and in 1991 he was world champion in the four with helmsman .

Athletic career

After winning the senior's match , the unofficial U23 world championships, in a two-man without a helmsman in 1983 , Rabe moved from his hometown of Lüneburg to the Dortmund Federal Training Center in 1984 . There he was trained from 1986 by Ralf Holtmeyer , who brought him into the Germany eight . After two sixth places at the World Championships in 1986 and 1987, Rabe moved to the eighth position for the first time in the following year for the Olympic Games in Seoul . Together with Thomas Möllenkamp , Matthias Mellinghaus , Eckhardt Schultz , Ansgar Wessling , Armin Eichholz , Thomas Domian , Wolfgang Maennig and helmsman Manfred Klein , Rabe won the gold medal. He then temporarily ended his career.

By the time Rabe returned to competitive sport, Roland Baar had successfully taken over the field in the Germany eight. At the 1991 World Championships , Rabe started with Eichholz, Armin Weyrauch and Matthias Ungemach in a four-man team . Controlled by Jörg Dederding , the quartet won the gold medal in a new world record , which was not beaten again in this boat class (which has not been held at the Olympic Games and World Championships since 1996 and 2008). In the following year Rabe was again a member of the Germany eight , which won "bronze" in Barcelona and then gave up competitive sport again.

For his sporting successes he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on June 23, 1993 .

In 1995 Rabe returned to competitive sports and finished sixth at the world championships in four-man without a helmsman. He then finally ended his sports career.

Rabe died of pneumonia that he could n't get over because of his anorexia .

International success

• 1983: 1st place U23 world championships in two without a helmsman
• 1984: 2nd place U23 world championships in a four-man without a helmsman
• 1985: 1st place in the U23 World Championships in eighth place
• 1986: 6th place world championships in eighth place
• 1987: 6th place World Championships in eighth place
• 1988: 1st place Olympic Games in eighth place
• 1991: 1st place world championships in a four-man with helmsman
• 1992: 3rd place Olympic Games in eighth place
• 1995: 6th place in the four-man championship without a helmsman

Works about raven

• The report "Gold does not make you happy - Bahne Rabe and his lonely path" by Katharina Gugel and Ulf Eberle from the 37 Grad series was broadcast on ZDF on May 21, 2002 . In 2003 she was awarded the 3rd prize of the Axel Springer Prize for young journalists.
• Bahne Rabe's life served the sports journalist Evi Simeoni as the starting point for her novel Schlagmann (Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-608-93969-9 ).

literature

• Dirk Kurbjuweit : Anorexia - easy, track, easy . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 2001 ( online ).

Web links

• Death of a rower - Bahne Rabe . Deutschlandfunk , September 9, 2012, 11:30 pm, author: Herbert Fischer-Solms, length: 26:44 minutes, with photo
• Evi Simeoni: Lost in nothing ( memento from October 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (obituary, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from November 15, 2001)
• Bahne Rabe at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Bahne Rabe in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• German successes at world championships

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V., VIBSS: The Federal President and his duties in the field of sport: "... on June 23, 1993 Federal President von Weizsäcker awarded ... disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the 1992 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with the silver laurel leaf ... "