Dirk Crois

Dirk Crois (born April 18, 1961 in Bruges ) is a former Belgian rower . He and Pierre-Marie Deloof won silver in a double scull at the 1984 Olympic Games .

Athletic career

In 1980, Crois finished sixth in the double fours at the Match des Seniors, the predecessor of the U23 World Championships . In 1981 he won the silver medal in the double scull, and in 1982 also silver in the single . 1982 Crois also took part with Rudy Defauw in the world championships in the adult class and finished eighth in the double scull. In 1983 Crois won bronze in a double scull at the senior match, and at the World Championships he finished tenth in the single.

At the 1984 Olympic Games, the field was thinned out in all boat classes, as two of the strongest rowing nations were absent due to the Olympic boycott with the DRR and the Soviet Union. In the double sculls, eleven boats were at the start, the Germans Andreas Schmelz and Georg Agrikola as well as Crois and Deloof made it directly to the final as the preliminary winners , the boats from the USA and Yugoslavia as well as Canada and Italy were added via the hope runs. The final won the US rowers Brad Alan Lewis and Paul Enquist with about 1.30 seconds ahead of the Belgians, who in turn had 1:40 seconds ahead of the Yugoslavs Zoran Pančić and Milorad Stanulov .

The following year, at the 1985 World Championships, the double scull from the GDR won ahead of the boat from the Soviet Union, bronze went to the Swiss double scull, with Crois and Deloof taking fourth place a hundredth of a second behind. In 1987 in Copenhagen , the Belgians reached fifth place. At the Olympic Games in 1988 , Crois took third place in the hope race behind the Finn Pertti Karppinen and the Dutch Henk-Jan Zwolle and could not qualify for the A or B final. In 1991 Crois finished twelfth in a double scull at the World Championships , and in 1992 he also reached twelfth place in a double scull at the Olympic Games .

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984 Sportverlag Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5
• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. Chronicle IV.Soul 1988 - Atlanta 1996 . Sportverlag Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 .

Web links

• Dirk Crois at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Dirk Crois in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )