Jörg Weissig

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Jörg Weissig (* 1929 / 1930 ; † October 2017 ) was a German rowing coach .

Life

Weissig studied at the German University for Physical Culture (DHfK) in Leipzig and graduated in 1954. The topic of his work was "The training of tax people for training and competition".

Weissig was a trainer at SC DHfK Leipzig . His first major success as a rowing coach was in 1967 when his protégés Werner Riemann, Hans-Jürgen Friedrich and Manfred Wotzniak won silver at the European Championships. In 1972 the rowers Siegfried Brietzke and Wolfgang Mager , whom he supervised, became Olympic champions in two without a helmsman . At the Summer Olympics, Weissig's foursome with Brietzke, Mager, Andreas Decker and Stefan Semmler won the gold medal. In 1980 this boat managed by Weissig won again, but instead of Mager, Jürgen Thiele was part of the crew in Moscow . The eighth Olympic champions Roland Kostulski , Bernd Baumgart , Jens Doberschütz and Hans-Peter Koppe as well as vice world champion Uwe Gasch were among his protégés.

After the end of the German Democratic Republic , Weissig, nicknamed “Schorsch” in rowing circles, worked as a national coach in Belgium .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jörg Weissig: The training of tax people for training and competition . University of Leipzig, Faculty of Sports Science ,, 1954 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed on February 21, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Rowing trainer Jörg Weissig has died . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . October 21, 2017.
  3. ↑ https://www.sachsen-rudern.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Trauerbeispiel-Jörg-Weissig.pdf
  4. ↑ Jochen Lenz: The science area water driving / tourism . In: Gerhard Lehmann, Lothar Kalb, Norbert Rogalski, Detlev Schröter and Günther Wonneberger (eds.): German University for Physical Culture Leipzig 1950-1990 . Meyer & Meyer, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8403-0034-9 , pp. 375 .
personal data
SURNAME Weissig, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rowing coach
DATE OF BIRTH 1929 or 1930
DATE OF DEATH October 2017