Colin von Ettingshausen

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Colin von Ettingshausen (born August 11, 1971 in Düsseldorf ) is a former German rower who won an Olympic silver medal in two-man without a helmsman in 1992.

In 1991 von Ettingshausen and Peter Hoeltzenbein came third at the German Championships. At the 1991 World Rowing Championships, the two reached the finals and took sixth place. In the following year the two made a strong start to the season by winning the German championship in a time of 6:23 minutes. With that, the two traveled as co-favorites to the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. There the British Steven Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent won gold in 6:27 minutes. Hoeltzenbein and von Ettingshausen finished second in 6:32 minutes ahead of the Slovenes Iztok Čop and Denis Žvegelj .

For winning the silver medal, he received the silver laurel leaf on June 23, 1993 .

In 1993 Hoeltzenbein and von Ettingshausen moved into the newly assembled Germany eight and became world champions with this boat. In 1994 von Ettingshausen finished fourth in the world championship with eighth. In 1995, von Ettingshausen and Matthias Ungemach formed a new two without , who finished 15th at the 1995 World Championships and the 1996 Olympic Games .

Colin von Ettingshausen rowed for the RG Benrath . After studying business administration, he went to BASF . Since April 2012, he has been commercial director and labor director at BASF Schwarzheide . He left BASF on June 1, 2020 at his own request

literature

  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Barcelona 1992. The German Olympic team , Frankfurt 1992

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V., VIBSS: The Federal President and his duties in the field of sport: ... On June 23, 1993, Federal President von Weizsäcker awarded the silver medal winners of the 1992 Olympic and Paralymic Games to disabled and non-disabled athletes for the first time in a joint event Bay leaf from ...
  2. ^ BASF Schwarzheide, corporate management. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 13, 2016 ; accessed on January 13, 2016 . 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.basf-schwarzheide.de
  3. ^ BASF Schwarzheide: Anne Francken succeeds Colin von Ettingshausen. In: IDDK® GmbH | Newsroom. May 4, 2020, accessed on June 2, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Ettingshausen, Colin von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rower
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf