Jörg Schmall
| Jörg Schmall medal table |
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sailing |
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| Olympic games | ||
| bronze | Montreal 1976 | tornado |
| World championships | ||
| gold | 1975 | tornado |
| bronze | 1980 | tornado |
| German championship | ||
| gold | 1973 | tornado |
| gold | 1976 | tornado |
| gold | 1979 | tornado |
Jörg Schmall (born January 27, 1943 in Stuttgart ) is a German regatta sailor who competed for the Federal Republic of Germany.
successes
Jörg Schmall from the Constance Yacht Club won the German championship in the Tornado boat class in 1973 and 1976 together with his brother Steffen Schmall .
He started internationally in 1975 together with Jörg Spengler from the Noris Yacht Club . In 1975 the two won the world title in the tornado ahead of the British Reginald White and John Osborn .
At the 1976 Olympic Games, the two British won by a clear margin over the US sailors David McFaull and Michael Rothwell . After two second places in the first two races, Spengler and Schmall were able to secure the bronze medal just behind the Americans with a second place in the last race. For this he and his partner Jörg Spengler were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by Federal President Walter Scheel together with the German Olympic team .
In 1979 Spengler and Schmall won the German championships together and the following year they won the bronze medal again at the world championships.
Jörg Schmall is a graduate physicist and lives in Nuremberg. He is a member of the Constance Yacht Club (KYC).
literature
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 .
- National Olympic Committee for Germany: The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany. Frankfurt am Main 1976, p. 360
Web links
- Jörg Schmall in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- World and European championships in the tornado on sport-komplett.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadt Landshut, Sportchronik 1974-76: .... 1976 ... Reception of the German Olympic team in October with Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in Bonn and award with the silver laurel leaf.
- ^ German championships in sailing on sport-komplett.de
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schmall, Jörg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German regatta sailor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |