Helmut Cämmerer
Helmut Cämmerer (born May 5, 1911 ; † unknown) was a German canoeist who won an Olympic silver medal in 1936.
Helmut Cämmerer won the 1933 German championships with a single kayak over 1000 meters. At the European Championships in Prague in the same year he won the gold medal in front of the Swede Nils Wallin . In 1934 Cämmerer took second place behind the two Germans Ewald Tilker and Fritz Bondroit at the European Championships in Copenhagen in a two-man kayak together with a canoeist named Stange .
In 1936 Cämmerer won the German championship title in single kayak for the second time. At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, he finished second, 2.7 seconds behind the Austrian Gregor Hradetzky . In 1938 the first canoe world championships took place in Växholm, Sweden; there the Swede Karl Widmark won ahead of Cämmerer and Hradetzky.
literature
- Bodo Harenberg (ed.): The stars of the sport from A-Z . Darmstadt 1970
Web links
- Helmut Cämmerer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- European champion canoeing
- German champions in single kayak
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chamberlain, Helmut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German canoeists |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1911 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century or 21st century |