Dieter Schubert (rower)

Dieter Schubert (2nd from right) after winning the GDR championship in 1969 in a foursome

Dieter Schubert (born September 11, 1943 in Pirna ) is a former German rower who became Olympic champion in the boat class four without a helmsman for the GDR in 1968 and 1972 . With multi-seat rowing boats he won another three gold medals as world champion and two gold medals as European champion. From 1966 to 1972 he won a gold medal at an international championship every year.

Life

Until he was 13, Dieter Schubert first played handball and later football. In 1959 he switched to the rowers at what was then his sports club, Chemie Pirna.

A little later, as a teenager, he formed the racing community with Frank Rühle , Dieter Grahn and Frank Forberger , which remained unchanged for a total of eleven years as a four-man without helmsman of the sports club SC Einheit Dresden . With the exception of 1969, when Frank Rühle fell ill, this boat crew won the gold medal of the international highlight of the year every year from 1966 to 1972. In 1969 Dieter Schubert started with the GDR eighth and became European champion.

For their Olympic victory in 1968, the crew of the four was voted GDR athletes of the year .

Dieter Schubert achieved his first medal success in the GDR in 1963 with a third place in the GDR championship in the eighth of the SC Einheit Dresden.

Dieter Schubert's coach was Hans Eckstein .

Dieter Schubert is a trained toolmaker and, after studying sports at the DHfK sports university, became a women's trainer at SC Einheit Dresden. He later worked as a sports teacher at the Erich Weinert Oberschule (today the Stadtmitte primary school) in Radeberg and, after the end of the GDR, as an insurance agent.

Successes in detail

Without specifying the boat class: four without a helmsman

• 1963:
  • GDR Championship, 3rd place in eighth place (SC Einheit Dresden)
• 1965:
  • GDR Championship: 1st place, 2nd place in eighth place (SC Einheit Dresden)
• 1966:
  • GDR Championship, 1st place
  • World Championship: 1st place
• 1967:
  • GDR Championship, 1st place
  • European Championship, 1st place
• 1968:
  • Olympic Games , 1st place
  • GDR Championship, 1st place; 1st place in the eighth (SC unit Dresden)
• 1969:
  • European Championship, 1st place in the GDR eighth
• 1970:
  • GDR Championship, 1st place; 2nd place in the eighth (SC unit Dresden)
  • World Championship: 1st place
• 1971:
  • GDR Championship, 1st place
  • European Championship, 1st place
• 1972:
  • Olympic Games , 1st place

Awards (selection)

• 1968: Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
• 1971: Star of Friendship between Nations in silver
• 1972: Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold

literature

• Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. 2nd updated edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-538-4 .

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• Volker Kluge: The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. 2nd updated edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-538-4 , pp. 511f.

Web links

Commons : Dieter Schubert (rower)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dieter Schubert in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )