Günter Bergau
Günter Bergau (born April 11, 1939 in Pillau ) is a former rower from the GDR who won a European title in 1964.
Career
The two with helmsman from ASK Vorwärts Rostock with Günter Bergau, Erhard Schmiedl and helmsman Johannes Nath took second place in the GDR championships in 1960. Bergau was more successful with Peter Gorny : Together with helmsman Bernd Giza (1962) and helmsman Karl-Heinz Danielowski (from 1963) the two won four GDR championship titles in a row from 1962 to 1965, and in 1967 they won for the fifth time; In 1966 and 1968 Bergau, Gorny and Danielowski took second place. In between, in 1965, together with Günter Roock and Jochen Mietzner, they also achieved a championship success in the four-man with helmsman .
Internationally, Bergau, Gorny and Danielowski won the European championship in two with helmsman in 1964 in Amsterdam. Bergau and Gorny achieved second place in Vichy in 1967 in a two-man without a helmsman behind the Americans Hough and Johnson. Bergau was only unsuccessful at the Olympic Games. In 1964 in Tokyo he missed the Olympic final with Gorny and Danielowski as he did in Mexico City in 1968 with the GDR eighth, in both regattas the boats with Bergau took seventh place.
Web links
- Günter Bergau in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- German successes at European rowing championships
Individual evidence
- ^ GDR championships for two with a helmsman
- ^ GDR championships foursome with helmsman
- ↑ Results European Rowing Championships two-man without
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bergau, Günter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pillau |