Dieter Below
Dieter Below (born June 23, 1942 in Rostock ) is a former German sailor who competed for the German Democratic Republic .
Athletic career
The trained shipbuilder began sailing with SC Empor Rostock , in 1965 he moved to Berlin to TSC Berlin, from which SC Berlin-Grünau emerged in 1969 . Below began his career in the kite class , in which he won the GDR title in 1971 together with Michael Zachries and a third sailor named Nolte. In 1971 and 1972 Below and Zachries were vice European champions in kites. The 1972 European kite champions Paul Borowski , Karl-Heinz Thun and Konrad Weichert qualified for the 1972 Olympic Games off Kiel .
In 1973 Below moved to the Soling class with Michael Zachries and Olaf Engelhardt joined as the third man . At the European Championships in 1973 Below, Zachries and Engelhardt won in front of an Austrian boat and the second GDR boat with Roland Schwarz , Lothar Köpsel and Werner Christoph . At the European Championships in 1974, Willi Kuhweide's German crew won in front of Roland Schwarz and Dieter Below's boats. In 1976, Below, Zachries and Engelhardt won the European Championships in front of the Danish team with Valdemar Bandolowski , Erik Hansen and Poul Høj Jensen . At the 1976 Olympic Regatta , the Danes won ahead of the third place in the 1975 World Championship from the USA, followed by Below, Zachries and Engelhardt the Olympic bronze medal. In 1978 Belows Crew won bronze again at the European Championships, then Engelhardt switched to the Starboot and Bernd Klenke added Dieter Below's Soling crew for him . Below, Zachries and Klenke took fourth place in the 1980 Olympic Regatta . After that, Below ended his active sports career.
Below was deputy general secretary in the GDR Sailing Association until 1990, after which he worked for four years at SC Berlin-Grünau and then until 2007 as a competitive sports coordinator at the Berlin Sailing Association.
literature
- Volker Kluge : Lexicon athletes in the GDR. Neues Leben, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-355-01759-6 , p. 33.
Web links
- Dieter Below in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- World and European championships in Soling on sport-komplett.de
Footnotes
- ^ GDR championships in the international classes on sport-komplett.de
- ↑ World and European champions in the kite class on sport-komplett.de. While the crew is given as Below, Zachries and Nolte for 1971, only Below and Zachries are recorded for 1972 ( Volker Kluge : Lexikon Sportler in der DDR. P. 530).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Below, Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German regatta sailor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rostock |