Harald Marg
Harald Marg (born September 26, 1954 in Magdeburg ) is a former German canoeist who became Olympic champion in the GDR in 1980.
Marg, who competed for SC Magdeburg , won six gold medals as well as five silver medals and two bronze medals at world championships from 1973 to 1983, mostly in a four-person kayak. He had already won the Spartakiad in a foursome in 1971 . In 1978 and 1979 he won the world championship title on both distances. The GDR four-man over the 1000-meter distance remained undefeated in the same line-up at the GDR championships in 1978, 1979 and 1980, two world championships and the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow .
International medals
Olympic games
- 1980: Gold four-person kayak 1000 meters ( Rüdiger Helm , Bernd Olbricht , Harald Marg, Bernd Duvigneau )
World championships
- 1973: Bronze four-person kayak 1000 meters ( Norbert Paschke , Peter Korsch , Jürgen Lehnert , Harald Marg)
- 1975: Silver two-person kayak 500 meters ( Herbert Laabs , Harald Marg)
- 1975: Silver four-person kayak 1000 meters (Herbert Laabs, Gerhard Rummel , Rüdiger Helm , Harald Marg)
- 1978: Gold four-person kayak 500 meters ( Frank-Peter Bischof , Bernd Duvigneau , Roland Graupner , Harald Marg)
- 1978: Gold four-person kayak 1000 meters ( Bernd Olbricht , Bernd Duvigneau, Rüdiger Helm, Harald Marg)
- 1979: Gold four-person kayak 500 meters (Bernd Duvigneau, Harald Marg, Jürgen Dittrich , Roland Graupner)
- 1979: Gold four-person kayak 1000 meters (Bernd Duvigneau, Harald Marg, Rüdiger Helm, Bernd Olbricht)
- 1981: Bronze four-person kayak 500 meters (Frank-Peter Bischof, André Wohllebe , Rüdiger Helm, Harald Marg)
- 1981: Gold four-person kayak 1000 meters (Rüdiger Helm, Frank-Peter Bischof, Peter Hempel , Harald Marg)
- 1982: Silver four-person kayak 500 meters (Frank-Peter Bischof, Frank Fischer , Rüdiger Helm, Harald Marg)
- 1982: Silver four-person kayak 1000 meters (Frank-Peter Bischof, Peter Hempel, Rüdiger Helm, Harald Marg)
- 1983: Gold four-person kayak 500 meters ( Andreas Stähle , Peter Hempel, Harald Marg, Rüdiger Helm)
- 1983: Silver four-person kayak 1000 meters (Andreas Stähle, Peter Hempel, Rüdiger Helm, Harald Marg)
Awards
- 1980 - Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver
literature
- Volker Kluge : Lexicon athletes in the GDR. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-355-01759-6
Web links
- Harald Marg in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- World championships in two-person kayaks and four-person kayaks over 500 meters
- World championships in four-person kayak over 1000 meters
- GDR championships over 500 meters
- GDR championships over 1000 meters
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 3
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marg, Harald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German canoeists |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |