Günter Schroers
Günter Schroers (born January 11, 1939 in Flensburg ) is a former German rower .
Günter Schroers from the Germania Dusseldorf rowing club in 1904 won the German championships in 1959 in a four-man without a helmsman together with Manfred Uellner from the same club and Victor Hendrix and Manfred Kluth from the Neuss rowing club the title in front of the boat from Kiel and Ratzeburg, which had won the European title in 1958; Third place went to a foursome at the German championships in 1959, which was occupied exclusively by rowers from Germania Düsseldorf. The German master crew also started at the European championships in 1959 and won the silver medal behind the boat from Switzerland.
Also in 1960 the Düsseldorf boats trained by Theo Cohnen were competitors of the racing community from Kiel and Ratzeburg. So the Düsseldorf eight with Klaus Wegner , Jürgen Litz , Manfred Uellner, Gerd Cintl , Horst Effertz , Claus Heß , Klaus Riekemann , Günter Schroers and helmsman Michael Obst was runner-up behind the Germany eight from Ratzeburg and Kiel, who also did that in the same year Olympic final won. Litz, Cintl, Effertz, Riekemann and Obst won Olympic gold in a four with helmsman . The Dusseldorf four without a helmsman with Hess, Wegner, Uellner and Schroers took third place in the championships and could not qualify for the all-German team at the Olympic Games. Schroers drove to Rome as a substitute for the foursome. There, Just Jahn dropped out in the double scull as a partner of the Wormser Heinz Becher . Schroers and Becher finished fifth in the Olympic prelim and were eliminated third in their reunion.
At the German Championships in 1961, Klaus Wegner, Manfred Uellner, Klaus Riekemann and Günter Schroers won in a four-man without a helmsman. At the European Championships , this boat won the bronze medal behind the teams from Italy and from the USSR. In 1962 Günter Schroers and Horst Effertz were runner-up in the two-man without helmsman behind Günther Zumkeller and Dieter Bender , who also won the title at the world championships . In 1964 Schroers and Effertz won the German championship title in the four without a helmsman together with Manfred Misselhorn and Albrecht Müller . At the European Championships in 1964 , this crew won ahead of the Danes and the Italians. The German foursome was also the favorite for the Olympic regatta in Tokyo . There the Danes won, the German crew reached the finals, but couldn't cope with the wind conditions and took sixth place.
In 1967 Günter Schroers was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf .
literature
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 , p. 760.
Web links
- Günter Schroers in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- European championships in four without a helmsman
- German championships in four without a helmsman
- Club history Germania Düsseldorf
Footnotes
- ↑ The spelling of the name follows the spelling in the book by Volker Kluge; of the four internet sources used, his club at the time and the chronicle of the German championships also use this spelling, sport-komplett.de writes it by Günther Schrörs, Sports-Reference Günter Schrörs
- ↑ German championships in the eighth
- ↑ p. 15 of the chronicle of the Worms rowing club
- ^ German championships in two without a helmsman
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schroers, Günter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schrörs, Günter; Schrörs, Günther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Flensburg |