Jörg Lucke

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In the front boat: Wolfgang Gunkel and Jörg Lucke (right) 1976 with helmsman Uwe Porombka

Jörg Lucke (born January 7, 1942 in Berlin ) is a former rower from the GDR. In 1968 and 1972 Lucke was Olympic champion.

Lucke began in 1956 with the rowing section of the SC Einheit Berlin , which later became SC Berlin-Grünau . In 1961 he was GDR champion for the first time, in the eighth place . Lucke won a total of ten GDR championship titles, the last one in 1975 in a two-man team .

In 1966 Lucke was third in the eighth place in the World Championship, and Heinz-Jürgen Bothe was also in the boat . Together with Bothe, Lucke qualified in two without a helmsman for the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico. On the Olympic regatta course in Xochimilco , the two won 0.15 seconds ahead of the boat from the United States. After the European Championship in 1969, when both of them in a four-man with helmsman received silver behind the West German Lake Constance four , Bothe ended his career.

Lucke switched to Wolfgang Gunkel and helmsman Klaus-Dieter Neubert in the two with helmsman. In 1971 this new two-man European champion and at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich the boat won with over two seconds ahead of the Czechoslovak boat. In 1974 the boat became vice world champion, and in 1975 Gunkel and Lucke and their new helmsman Bernd Fritsch became world champions. In the Olympic qualification in 1976, the world champions failed because of the later Olympic champions Harald Jahresling and Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich with their helmsman Georg Spohr . Thereupon Lucke ended his career.

Lucke is a trained electrical mechanic, he later worked as a photographer, switch mechanic and businessman in Berlin.

Awards (selection)

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 .

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personal data
SURNAME Lucke, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rower and Olympic champion
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin