Bernhard Schulze

Bernhard "Berni" Schulze (born May 20, 1938 in Recklinghausen ) is a former German canoeist .

Schulze, who started for Eintracht Duisburg , won the German championship title in a single kayak over 500 meters in 1959 . The 1959 European Championship took place on his home track in Duisburg, where he won the title in the 4 x 500 meter relay together with Paul Lange , Helmuth Schneider and Meinrad Miltenberger . In the following year Schulze could not qualify for the Olympic Games, from the European championship relay of 1959 only Paul Lange belonged to the Olympic championship relay. In the next few years Schulze won numerous German championship titles, up to 1966 there were a total of fourteen, but initially could not win any further international medals.In 1963, as fourth in the relay, he narrowly missed a medal at both the World and European Championships.

In 1964 four canoeists from the Federal Republic of Germany qualified for the four-person kayak in the all-German team . Holger Zander , Günter Perleberg , Friedhelm Wentzke and Bernhard Schulze won the silver medal behind the four from the Soviet Union at the Olympic Games in Tokyo . In 1965 Schulze also won bronze in a foursome at the European Championship. At the 1968 Olympic Games , Holger Zander and Bernhard Schulze reached the final in a two-man kayak, but only finished ninth and last.

Bernhard Schulze was a plasterer by profession and later a commercial clerk. He is married and has one child.

literature

• Karl Lennartz and Walter Teutenberg: Olympic participants in Westphalia. Biographies Athens 1896 to Munich 1972 . Kassel 1993, ISBN 3-928562-58-4
• National Olympic Committee for Germany: Mexico 1968. Our team. Frankfurt am Main 1968

Web links

• Berni Schulze in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• European championships in the canoe relay