Detlef Kirchhoff (rower)

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Detlef Kirchhoff (born May 21, 1967 in Halberstadt ) is a former rower who worked for the GDR until 1990 . He won three medals in four Olympics. In 1990, 1995 and 1998 he won the World Rowing Championships.

Career

Detlef Kirchhoff initially rowed for SG Dynamo Potsdam . In 1984 and 1985 he won the Junior World Championships in a four-man with helmsman . In 1986 he took part in the world championships in the adult class for the first time and finished fifth with the GDR eighth . In 1987 Kirchhoff formed a pair with a helmsman together with Mario Streit and helmsman René Rensch . After a fourth place at the 1987 World Championships, the boat won the silver medal at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul behind the Italian defending champions Carmine and Giuseppe Abbagnale with their helmsman Giuseppe Di Capua . For this success he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. After Kirchhoff had finished fourth with the two at the 1989 World Championships, he switched to the four with helmsman in 1990. In the line-up of Mario Grüssel , Stefan Schulz , Detlef Kirchhoff, Bernd Eichwurzel and helmsman Hendrik Reiher , the four-man won the World Championships in Tasmania. The four-man was next to the two without the only man's boat that won a world championship title at the last appearance of the GDR national rowing team.

In 1991 the SG Dynamo Potsdam became the Potsdamer Ruder-Gesellschaft . In the first year after the fall of the Wall, Kirchhoff was only a member of the German B-team. In 1992, together with Hans Sennewald from Rostock, he was able to recommend himself for the Germany eight put together by Ralf Holtmeyer . Sennewald and Kirchhoff were the first rowers from the GDR in this boat, Kirchhoff was also the longest in the eight with his height of 2.08 meters. At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​the boat won the bronze medal.

For this he received the silver bay leaf on June 23, 1993 .

In 1993 Kirchhoff and Sennewald formed a two-man without a helmsman and won silver at the World Championships behind Matthew Pinsent and Steven Redgrave . In 1995 Kirchhoff was back in eighth place in Germany and became world champion in Tampere. At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Germany eighth won the silver medal with Kirchhoff.

After the eighth finished fifth at the 1997 World Championships, Kirchhoff switched back to the two without a helmsman and won the 1998 World Championships in Cologne with Robert Sens . After a sixth place at the World Rowing Championships in 1999, Sens and Kirchhoff finished only ninth at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. Kirchhoff, who meanwhile started for the Berlin Rowing Club , ended his career after the Olympic Games in Sydney.

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 .
  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Sydney 2000. The German Olympic team . Frankfurt am Main 2000

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , 12./13. November 1988, p. 4
  2. ↑ 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 ... disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the 1992 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with the silver laurel leaf ...

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personal data
SURNAME Kirchhoff, Detlef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rower
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt