Edgar Heidorn

Edgar "Ekke" Heidorn (born March 15, 1941 in Hanover ; † April 28, 2020 there ) was a German rower and driving instructor .

Life

Edgar Heidorn attended the Froebel School in Hannover- Linden-Nord and rowed for the German Rowing Club from 1884 .

In 1962 and 1964 he was German champion in single , in 1965 and 1968 he took second place behind Jochen Meißner . At the German championships in 1966 he won together with Karsten Beck, Arnulf Pichert and Wolfgang Hottenrott in a four-man without a helmsman .

Heidorn was rarely used internationally. In 1962 he could not prevail against Achim Hill from the GDR in the elimination for the all-German team at the rowing world championships in Lucerne . Hill also represented the all-German team at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. In 1968 Heidorn was nominated as a substitute rower for single and double sculls, but was not used. His greatest international success was fifth place in the four without a helmsman at the 1966 World Championships .

Heidorn was a trained motor vehicle mechanic and later ran a driving school in Hanover. He died on April 28, 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany of the consequences of a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

literature

• National Olympic Committee for Germany (Ed.): Mexico 1968. Our team. Düsseldorf 1968. p. 46

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilfried Hoffmann: German Championship Rowing (DMR). Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klub 08 , accessed on April 29, 2020 . 
2. ^ Wilfried Hoffmann: German Championship Rowing (DMR). Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klub 08 , accessed on April 29, 2020 . 
3. ^ Only Hill prevailed through row eliminations for the World Championships in Lucerne , in: Neues Deutschland from September 4, 1962
4. ↑ Rowing legend Edgar Heidorn is dead - the Lindener died of a corona infection , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of April 29, 2020
5. ↑ Olympic brochure 1968, p. 46
6. ↑ Rowing legend Edgar Heidorn died of Corona. New press , accessed April 29, 2020 .