Detlef Lewe

Detlef Lewe (born June 20, 1939 in Dortmund , † October 1, 2008 in Munich ) was a German canoeist . From 1960 to 1972 he took part in the Olympic Games for the Federal Republic of Germany four times and won 33 German championship titles.

At the 1960 Olympic Games , Detlef Lewe was sixth in the single Canadier over 1000 meters. Four years later he finished sixth again, but in the two-man canoe together with Klaus Böhle . Lewe became European champions in 1965 and 1967 and world champions for the first time in 1966. At the Olympic Games in 1968 Lewe won silver in the single canoe over 1000 meters behind the Hungarian Tibor Tatai . After the 1968 Olympic Games, Lewe resigned from competitive sports for the first time.

In 1970 he tried a comeback. In 1971 he became world champion in the single over 500 meters and over 1000 meters and was at least one of the favorites for the 1972 Olympic Games . At the opening ceremony he was the flag bearer of the German team. In the race over 1000 meters he then won the bronze medal behind the Romanian Ivan Patzaichin and the Hungarian Tamás Wichmann . After the 1972 Olympic Games, Lewe finally resigned from competitive sports.

Detlef Lewe started for the Schwerte canoe club for most of his career , and from 1959 to 1963 he started for the Bertasee Duisburg club . In addition to his sports career, Lewe completed a professional apprenticeship as a butcher and ran a butcher shop as a master in Schwerte. His marriage to Ilse Troska-Lewe has two children.

In October 1998 Lewe sold his butcher shop and moved to Munich. There he died on October 1st, 2008 after a short, serious illness.

Honors

• Honorary ring bearer of the city of Schwerte 1968
• On Lewe's 60th birthday, the street that leads to his club's boathouse was renamed Detlef-Lewe-Weg .
• Silver Bay Leaf (1966)
• Honor plaque of the German Olympic Society

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .
• Volker Kluge: Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 .

Web links

• Detlef Lewe in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Obituary in the Ruhr-Nachrichten
• Successes in the club history