Georg Spohr

In the back boat from left to right: Jahresling, Ulrich and Spohr 1976

Georg Spohr (born January 24, 1951 in Magdeburg ) is a former helmsman in rowing from the GDR. In 1976 and 1980 Spohr was Olympic champion in two with helmsman .

Life

In the fall of 1975 Harald Jahresling and Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich formed a new pair. With a competition weight of 47 kg, Spohr, who was only 1.48 m tall, was the helmsman. The rowers from SC Magdeburg were able to prevail in the 1976 Olympic qualification against the reigning Olympic and world champions Wolfgang Gunkel and Jörg Lucke . At the 1976 Olympic Games , Jahresling, Ulrich and Spohr were clearly superior and won with almost three seconds ahead of the Soviet boat.

At the 1977 World Cup, the boat finished second behind the Bulgarian boat. After that yearling and Ulrich switched to the GDR eighth and became world champions with eighth. Georg Spohr also became world champion when he drove the two of Jürgen Pfeiffer and Gert Uebeler from Halle in 1979 . For the 1980 Olympic Games , Jahresling, Ulrich and Spohr reunited. They won the Olympic regatta just ahead of the Soviet boat.

In 1976 and 1980 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit for his Olympic victories.

In March 2020, the double Olympic and world champion Spohr was honored at the age of 69 with a “Walk of Fame” floor slab on the Magdeburg Sports Walk of Fame in his hometown on Breite Weg 28. The event took place in the presence of the mayor, the chairman of the city marketing "Pro Magdeburg" eV , as well as representatives of the sponsors and the SC Magdeburg.

Spohr is a trained telecommunications fitter, but worked in the film and photo department of SC Magdeburg .

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 .
• 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

• Georg Spohr in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In: New Germany . ZEFYS newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (free registration required). 
2. ↑ Neues Deutschland, August 22, 1980, p. 3