Horst Arndt

Horst Arndt
Full name	Horst Arndt
nation	Germany
birthday	September 19, 1934
place of birth	Koenigsberg ,  German Empire
date of death	19th October 2014
Place of death	Taunusstein ,  Germany
Career
discipline	Rowing , belt
society	RG Wiesbaden-Biebrich 1888
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × EM medals 2 × 0 × 0 × National medals 3 × 0 × 4 ×
Olympic games silver 1956 Melbourne Two with  European championships gold 1956 Bled Two with gold 1957 Duisburg Two with German championship rowing gold 1955 Berlin Two with gold 1956 Heilbronn Two with gold 1957 Berlin Two with bronze 1957 Berlin Eighth bronze 1958 Duisburg Eighth bronze 1958 Duisburg Foursome with bronze 1959 Mannheim Eighth
Last change: February 17, 2016

Horst Arndt (born September 19, 1934 in Königsberg ; † October 19, 2014 in Taunusstein ) was a German rower who won an Olympic silver medal in a two-man with helmsman in 1956 .

Career

Arndt rowed at the Wiesbaden-Biebrich rowing company in 1888 . In 1955 Horst Arndt and Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck won the German championship in two-man together with helmsman Achim Wernet. In 1956 Arndt and Groddeck were able to defend the title with the helmsman Rainer Borkowsky . The three Wiesbadeners also won the European championship in Bled in 1956 in front of the boats from Switzerland and Austria. At the Olympic Games in 1956 , the three took second place behind the Americans Arthur Ayrault and Conn Findlay with helmsman Armin Seiffert . In 1957, Groddeck, Arndt and Borkowsky defended their German championship title and also won the European Championship in Duisburg. Also in 1957, the three rowers competed in the German championship with a Wiesbaden eight and finished third.

After Groddeck moved to Ratzeburg, Arndt and Borkowsky switched to larger boats. With the Wiesbaden four-man with helmsman , they took third place at the German rowing championship in 1958. They also finished third again with the Wiesbaden eighth. 1959 occupied Arndt with a racing community from Ulm, Wiesbaden and Neuss again third in the German Championship in the eighth.

He was an honorary member of the rowing society Wiesbaden-Biebrich in 1888.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .

Web links

• Horst Arndt in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• German successes at European championships

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German championships in two with
2. ↑ German championships in the eighth
3. ↑ German championships in four with a helmsman