Bruno Müller (rower)

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Kurt Moeschter and Bruno Müller as Olympic champions, 1928

Bruno Müller (born October 11, 1902 ; † 1975 ) was a German rower who became Olympic champion in two without a helmsman in 1928 .

Bruno Müller rowed for the Berlin rowing club Hellas . At the German rowing championships in Schwerin in 1927, he won the title in a pair without together with Kurt Moeschter . In the four without a helmsman , the two took third place together with Kurt Hielscher and Albert Lange. The following year, the Hellas Berlin teams won the championship title in both boat classes at the German Championship in Hanover. At the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928 , Moeschter and Müller only started in two without a helmsman. In four rounds, the Germans competed against an opposing boat; they defeated the boats from France, the Netherlands, the United States and in the final the British boat and won gold in front of the British and the Americans. In 1929 Moeschter and Müller rowed their third championship title in two-man without.

Alongside and after his sporting career, Bruno Müller worked as an insurance salesman in Berlin, and after 1945 in West Berlin.

literature

  • Bodo Harenberg (ed.): The stars of the sport from A-Z . Habel, Berlin et al. 1970.
  • Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .

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