Jens Doberschütz

Jens Doberschütz (born October 5, 1957 in Dresden ) is a former rower from the GDR. 1980 Doberschütz was Olympic champion in eight .

The rower from SC DHfK Leipzig belonged to a successful racing community of SC DHfK and SC Einheit Dresden in 1979 . The boat with Bernd Schlufter as well as Walter and Ullrich Dießner and helmsman Lutz Werner first won the GDR championship title and then the title at the 1979 World Cup in Bled . While the Dießner brothers were Olympic champions with a new line-up in 1980 with the four , Doberschütz moved to the GDR eight in 1980. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , the eighth in the line-up Bernd Krauss , Hans-Peter Koppe , Ulrich Kons , Jörg Friedrich , Jens Doberschütz, Ulrich Karnatz , Uwe Dühring and batsman Bernd Höing with Klaus-Dieter Ludwig as helmsman with almost three seconds Ahead of the second-placed British. For this success he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In 1981 Doberschütz and Koppe switched to the four without a helmsman and, together with Uwe Gasch and Klaus Büttner, were third in the world championship in Munich. In 1982 Koppe and Doberschütz were back in eighth position in the GDR and became vice world champions in Lucerne. In 1983 Doberschütz finished fourth in the world championship with the four without a helmsman.

Doberschütz is a qualified sports teacher and opened a fitness studio in Leipzig after the fall of the Wall in the GDR . He also works as a rowing trainer. The rower Johannes Doberschütz is the son of Jens Doberschütz. The Olympic rowing champion Gerlinde Doberschütz is the wife of his brother Sven.

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 , pp. 97f.

Web links

• Jens Doberschütz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• German successes at world championships

Individual evidence

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