Bernd Niesecke

from left to right: Karsten Schmeling , Bernd Niesecke, Bernd Eichwurzel , Frank Klawonn and Hendrik Reiher become GDR champions in a four-man with helmsman in 1988

Bernd Niesecke (born October 30, 1958 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) is a former rower from the GDR. In 1988 Niesecke became Olympic champion in a four-man with helmsman .

biography

Niesecke rowed for SG Dynamo Potsdam under coach Bernd Landvoigt . In 1977 he took third place with a helmsman at the GDR championships. In 1981, together with Dietmar Schiller , Jörg Friedrich , Harald Jahresling and helmsman Klaus-Dieter Ludwig as a racing team from Potsdam and Magdeburg, he formed a four-man team with a helmsman who was supposed to replace the Olympic champions from Dresden with Ullrich Dießner . The new crew won the title straight away at the World Cup near Munich . In 1982 the world champions moved into the GDR eighth with the exception of Schiller and became vice world champion with this boat. In 1983 a purely Potsdam crew with Bernd Eichwurzel , Niesecke, Friedrich, Schiller and helmsman Ludwig entered the world championship as a foursome and came second behind the boat from New Zealand. At the 1985 World Cup, the Potsdam four-man rowed with Eichwurzel, Niesecke, Karsten Schmeling , Schiller and helmsman Hendrik Reiher and won the bronze medal.

In 1986 Frank Klawonn moved into the Potsdam four for Schiller. In the line-up of Karsten Schmeling, Bernd Niesecke, Bernd Eichwurzel, Frank Klawonn and Hendrik Reiher, the boat won the GDR championship in 1986 and 1988. The boat won the world championship title in 1986 in Nottingham and 1987 in Copenhagen. At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988, the four-man won almost three seconds ahead of the boat from Romania.

In 1986 and 1988 Niesecke was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold.

Bernd Niesecke worked for the People's Police until the fall of the Berlin Wall and in 1990 he was taken over by the newly formed police service in Potsdam.

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 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 15, 1986, p. 7
2. ↑ Neues Deutschland, 12./13. November 1988, p. 4

Web links

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