Frank Dundr

Frank dundr (* 25. January 1957 in Sonnenberg as Frank Butz ) is a former rower from the German Democratic Republic . In 1980 he won the Olympic gold medal in a double foursome.

Frank Butz switched from athletics to rowing in 1973 because there was still one man missing in the newly formed double foursome at SC Dynamo Berlin . In 1974 he finished second with Norbert Buhr at the European Junior Championships in double sculls . A year later he won the Junior World Championships with Gerd Lützner. In 1977 he married and took his wife's name.

In 1977 Frank Dundr was part of the GDR's new double foursome along with Martin Winter , Karl-Heinz Bußert and Wolfgang Güldenpfennig . This boat won the gold medal at the World Championships in Amsterdam. With Joachim Dreifke for Güldenpfennig, the boat defended the title at the 1978 World Championships in New Zealand. At the 1980 Olympic Games , Uwe Heppner and Carsten Bunk sat together with Winter and Dundr in a quad scull, who won gold with a one and a half second lead over the Soviet boat. Four years later, Dundr was in the quadruple scull that won the Rotsee regatta in Lucerne, but because of the Olympic boycott , Dundr missed his second Olympic participation.

Dundr was a skilled construction worker, but studied political science at the officers' school. Until 1990 he worked as a commissioner in Sonneberg. In the GDR he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit several times : 1978 in bronze, 1980 in silver and 1984 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. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 , page 77.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , December 12, 1978, p. 3
2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 3
3. ^ New Germany, 1./2. September 1984, p. 4

Web links

• Frank Dundr in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• German successes at world championships