Bernd Kruse

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Bernd Kruse (born March 17, 1940 - May 2, 2018 ) was a German rower . In 1962 he became world champion in eighth .

The rower from the Ratzeburg rowing club won his first German championship title in the eighth position back in 1958. In 1959, he and Ingo Kliefoth switched to the two-man without a helmsman , which, like the Ratzeburg eighth , was trained by Karl Adam . Kruse and Kliefoth won the German championships in 1959 and 1960. In 1959 , the two also rowed the European championship in the uncontrolled two-man. In 1960, the two Ratzeburgers lost to Jochen Neuling and Heinz Weigel from Leipzig in the qualifying regatta for the all-German team and were therefore unable to take part in the Olympic Games in Rome . In 1960, the two without a helmsman was the only boat from the GDR in the all-German team, alongside Achim Hill in the one .

In 1961 Kruse and Kliefoth returned to eighth, but they lost eighth from the Berlin rowing club at the German championships . In 1962 and 1963, the Ratzeburg eighth won the German championships. At the first rowing world championships held on the Rotsee near Lucerne , the eighth team won with Horst Meyer , Jürgen Plagemann , Klaus Aeffke , Klaus Behrens , Hans-Jürgen Wallbrecht , Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck , Ingo Kliefoth , Bernd Kruse and helmsman Thomas Ahrens in front of the boats from the Soviet Union and from France. In 1963 the boat in the same line-up won the European Championships in Copenhagen ahead of the boats from the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia.

After his sporting career, Kruse also worked as a professor at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (FHWS).

literature

  • Bodo Harenberg (editorial): The stars of the sport from A-Z . Darmstadt 1970

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German championships in the eighth
  2. ^ German championships in two without a helmsman
  3. ↑ Oliver Körting: The logistician is behind the wheel in the eighth. (No longer available online.) In: www.deutschlandachter.de. Germany-Achter , December 3, 2012, archived from the original on February 13, 2015 ; accessed on May 9, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutschlandachter.de
personal data
SURNAME Kruse, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rower
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1940
DATE OF DEATH 2nd May 2018