Carsten Bunk

Carsten Bunk (born February 29, 1960 in Berlin ) is a former rower from the German Democratic Republic . In 1980 he won the Olympic gold medal in a double foursome.

From 1975 to 1977 Carsten Bunk from SC Berlin-Grünau won the Spartakiade in one . After silver at the Junior World Championships in 1977, Bunk rowed the title a year later. In 1980, Bunk won the GDR championship in the single ahead of Frank Dundr . At the 1980 Olympic Games , the GDR double scull started with Frank Dundr, Carsten Bunk, Uwe Heppner and Martin Winter and won gold with a one and a half second lead over the Soviet boat. For this success he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In 1981, Bunk again finished third in the GDR championship in the single.

Carsten Bunk had started to study medicine, which he dropped out. He later opened a pension in Rathen in Saxon Switzerland .

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. 54.

Web links

• Carsten Bunk in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• GDR championships in one

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 3