Bernd Höing

Bernd Höing (born March 4, 1955 in Berlin ) is a former rower from the GDR . 1980 Höing was Olympic champion in eighth place .

The rower from SC Dynamo Berlin was the batsman of the figure eight, who became world champion in 1978. For this, the world champion crew in the GDR was voted Team of the Year . In 1979 the eighth became world champion again. In 1980 at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, the eighth in the line-up Bernd Krauss , Hans-Peter Koppe , Ulrich Kons , Jörg Friedrich , Jens Doberschütz , Ulrich Karnatz , Uwe Dühring , Bernd Höing and helmsman Klaus-Dieter Ludwig won with an almost three second lead on the runner-up British. In addition to Höing, Dühring and Karnatz were there from the 1978 eighth; Friedrich, Krauss and Ludwig joined the world championship boat in 1979, Kons was there in 1977, Doberschütz and Koppe were new to the eighth. After a fourth place at the world championship in 1981, the eighth of the GDR was vice world champion in 1982 and 1983 respectively.

Höing was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit for his sporting success in 1978, 1980 and 1984 .

Höing, a waiter by profession, completed a technical college degree in political science and was employed as an officer in the Presidium of the German People's Police in East Berlin . After the reunification in the GDR , he took over an inn.

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 , p. 231.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , December 12, 1978, p. 3
2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 3
3. ^ New Germany , 1./2. September 1984, p. 4

Web links

• Bernd Höing in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• German successes at world championships