Jaroslav Hellebrand

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Jaroslav Hellebrand (born December 30, 1945 in Prague ) is a former Czechoslovak rower . He won an Olympic bronze medal and three medals at world championships.

Athletic career

The 1.80 m tall Jaroslav Hellebrand started in a double scull . Together with Petr Krátký he won the bronze medal at the European Championships in 1965 and 1967. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, the two finished twelfth. Then Hellebrand switched to the one . At the 1970 World Championships in St. Catharines , the Argentine Alberto Demiddi won ahead of Götz Draeger from the GDR, behind which Hellebrand won the bronze medal. In 1972 he also started in the Olympic Games in Munich and finished in twelfth place like four years earlier.

1973 reached Hellebrand in double sculls together with Miroslav Laholík the fourth place at the European championships. In 1974 both switched to double fours . At the World Championships in Lucerne, the boat from the GDR won the double fours ahead of the boat from the Soviet Union. Behind them Filip Koudela , Zdeněk Pecka , Miroslav Laholík and Jaroslav Hellebrand won the bronze medal. In the following year, at the World Championships in 1975 in Nottingham, the double foursome from the GDR won again, followed by Koudela, Pecka, Václav Vochoska and Hellebrand in second place in front of the boat from the Soviet Union. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, the double foursome from Czechoslovakia competed with Jaroslav Hellebrand, Václav Vochoska, Zdeněk Pecka and Vladek Lacina . This foursome won the first run in front of the boat from the Federal Republic of Germany and qualified directly for the final. From the other preliminary run, the Soviet four came straight into the final, while the boat from the GDR had to go through the repechage. In the final, the GDR foursome won in front of the boat from the Soviet Union. Two seconds behind the Soviet boat, the double foursome from Czechoslovakia won bronze with a three second lead over the fourth-placed rowers from Germany.

After finishing his career, he worked as a sports teacher and paragliding as a hobby. In 2000 he had an accident in his hobby and injured his spine. In the following years, Hellebrand was active in para rowing . At the 2005 World Championships , he finished fourth in the AS men's singles .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ European championships in double sculls on sport-komplett.de
  2. ↑ World Championships in One on sport-komplett.de
  3. ↑ World Championships in quadruples on sport-komplett.de
  4. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 558
  5. ↑ Portrait on pametnaroda.cz (English)
personal data
SURNAME Hellebrand, Jaroslav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak rower
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague