Günther Pfaff
Günther Pfaff (born August 12, 1939 in Steyr ) is a former Austrian canoeist . He participated in the Olympic Games from 1964 to 1976 and won a bronze medal.
Career
Günther Pfaff first competed at the Olympic Games in 1964 and finished fifth in a single kayak. At the Canoe World Championships in East Berlin in 1966, Austria won the silver medal in a four-kayak over 1000 meters behind the Romanian boat with Günther Pfaff, Kurt Lindlgruber , Helmut Hediger and Gerhard Seibold . Two years later, at the 1968 Olympic Games , the four in the same line-up took seventh place. However, Seibold and Pfaff won bronze in a two-person kayak over 1000 meters behind the boats from the Soviet Union and Hungary.
At the 1970 World Championships in Copenhagen, Günther Pfaff and Gerhard Seibold won the 1000-meter course and took third place over 500 meters. With the changeover from the four-year rhythm to the annual rhythm, world championships were held again in 1971; Pfaff and Seibold won silver over 1000 meters in Belgrade. At the 1972 Olympic Games , Pfaff started in a two-person kayak with Helmut Hediger and finished in seventh place. In 1976 in Montreal, Pfaff retired in his fourth Olympic participation in both singles and twos.
Awards
literature
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 .
Web links
- Günther Pfaff in the Olympedia.org database (English)
- Canoe World Championships 500 meters
- Canoe World Championships 1000 meters
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 9, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pfaff, Günther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian canoeists |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Steyr , Austria |