Dirk Korthals
Dirk Korthals (born March 22, 1962 in Vreden ) is a former German swimmer who won an Olympic silver medal in 1984.
Career
Dirk Korthals won the German championship title in 1981 in the 4 x 200 meter freestyle relay with the SG Gladbeck relay . At the European Championships in Split, he finished ninth over 200 meters. Korthals won his first medal at a major international event at the 1982 World Cup in Guayaquil. The German 4 × 200 meter freestyle relay with the line-up of Andreas Schmidt , Dirk Korthals, Rainer Henkel and Michael Groß won bronze behind the relay teams from the United States and the Soviet Union.
In 1984 Korthals finished second at the German Championships over 200 meters behind Michael Groß. In 1: 49.93 seconds, he was the seventh swimmer in the world to stay under 1:50 minutes. At the 1984 Olympic Games , the 4-by-200-meter freestyle relay was the first of the four competitions in which Korthals participated. In the run-up, the US season had undercut the world record of the German season from the previous year. In the final, the swimmers from the United States led from the start, the German relay team with Thomas Fahrner , Dirk Korthals, Alexander Schowtka and Michael Groß came within four hundredths of a second to the Americans thanks to the final swimmer Groß and improved in 7:15 , 73 minutes her European record by over four seconds, but only received the silver medal. Over 100 meters freestyle Korthals reached the final and finished eighth. The 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay took fourth place in the line-up of Korthals, Andreas Schmidt, Schowtka and Groß, just behind the Swedish relay. In the 4 x 100 meter relay, Korthals only swam in the finals, Stefan Peter , Gerald Mörken , Michael Groß and Dirk Korthals took fourth place.
In 1985 Korthals took part again in the European Championships in Sofia. Alexander Schowtka, Thomas Fahrner, Dirk Korthals and Michael Groß won over 4 x 100 meters in front of the relay teams from the GDR and Sweden.
literature
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 .
- National Olympic Committee for Germany: Los Angeles 1984. The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany . Frankfurt am Main 1984
Web links
- Dirk Korthals in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- European Swimming Championships
Individual evidence
- ↑ Olympic brochure 1984, page 409
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Korthals, Dirk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vreden |