Jürgen Thiele

Jürgen Thiele (born August 8, 1959 in Altenburg ) is a former rower from the GDR. He won an Olympic gold medal in the four without a helmsman in 1980 .

With the four without Thiele became youth world champion in 1976 and finished second in 1977. 1978 and 1979 Thiele rowed in the second foursome of the SC DHfK Leipzig . A few weeks before the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, Wolfgang Mager injured his hand. Thiele joined the Olympic and world champions Siegfried Brietzke , Andreas Decker and Stefan Semmler as a substitute . At the Rotsee regatta, the boat with Thiele set a new course record with 5: 59.18 minutes. In Moscow at the Olympic regatta, the boat won in 6: 08.17 minutes with a clear lead over the Soviet boat. For this success he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.

While his partners from the Olympic championship boat ended their career after the Games in Moscow, Thiele moved up into the national team. In 1981 he finished fourth with the GDR eighth at the world championships, in 1983 he finished fourth with the four without.

Thiele is a trained electronics technician. He had studied at the Reichsbahn and worked for a long time at Leipzig Central Station. He later switched to TÜV.

literature

• Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf and 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 .

Web links

• Jürgen Thiele in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 3