Karl-Heinz Bussert

Karl-Heinz Bussert
nation	German Democratic Republic of Germany;
birthday	January 8, 1955
place of birth	Brandenburg on the Havel
Career
society	SG Dynamo Potsdam ; Potsdam Rowing Society
status	resigned
End of career	1985
Medal table
Olympic games
World championships

The world champions in double fours in 1982 (from front to back): Martin Winter, Uwe Heppner, Uwe Mund and Karl-Heinz Bußert

Karl-Heinz Bußert (born January 8, 1955 in Brandenburg (Havel) ) is a former German rower and current rowing trainer who started for the GDR . In 1976 he won the Olympics in a double foursome.

Career

Bußert grew up in the Kirchmöser district of Brandenburg and began rowing at BSG Motor Plaue . His talent was discovered in the training center there, supervised by SG Dynamo Potsdam , and he was soon delegated to the sports club in Potsdam. Here his career began, where he achieved most of his successes. In 1975 he finished second in the GDR championship in double sculls , but for SC Dynamo Berlin. The following year he went to Montreal as a substitute for the 1976 Olympic Games . After Martin Winter failed with appendicitis, Bußert moved into the quadruple and won the Olympic gold medal with one second ahead of the boat from the Soviet Union. For this success he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.

In the following years Bußert was a fixture in the double fours of the GDR, he won five world championships in a row by 1982, but was absent from the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. In 1983 he lost with the double scull at the World Cup against the boat from the Federal Republic of Germany. This was the first defeat of the GDR double foursome since the boat class was included in the program of world championships in 1974. In 1984 Bußert rowed with Rüdiger Reiche in double sculls and also won the title fights in the GDR, but missed the 1984 Olympic Games because of the GDR's Olympic boycott . 1985 Bußert competed for the last time with the GDR double fours and won silver behind the Canadian boat, for which he again received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.

Bußert is a trained maintenance mechanic and was then a member of the SG Dynamo Potsdam member of the German People's Police . In addition to sports, he studied political science and, after graduating, moved to the district authority of the German People's Police in Potsdam. Today he is a trainer at the Brandenburg State Rowing Association and a member of the successor club of SG Dynamo Potsdam, the Potsdam Rowing Society .

International medals

Olympic games

1976 - Gold in double fours ( Wolfgang Güldenpfennig , Rüdiger Reiche , Karl-Heinz Bußert, Michael Wolfgramm )

World championships

1977 - Gold in double fours (Wolfgang Güldenpfennig, Karl-Heinz Bußert, Martin Winter , Frank Dundr )
1978 - Gold in double fours ( Joachim Dreifke , Karl-Heinz Bußert, Martin Winter, Frank Dundr)
1979 - Gold in double fours ( Peter Kersten , Klaus Kröppelien , Karl-Heinz Bußert, Joachim Dreifke)
1981 - Gold in the four-four (Peter Kersten, Karl-Heinz Bußert, Uwe Heppner , Martin Winter)
1982 - Gold in the double fours (Karl-Heinz Bußert, Uwe Mund , Uwe Heppner, Martin Winter)
1983 - Silver in the quad scull (Joachim Dreifke, Rüdiger Reiche, Karl-Heinz Bußert, Martin Winter)
1985 - Silver in the double quad (Karl-Heinz Bußert, Uwe Sägling , Rüdiger Reiche, Jens Köppen )

GDR championships

1975 - Silver in double sculls: SC Dynamo Berlin (Karl-Heinz Bußert, Rudi Brandt)
1977 - Gold in the four-four: SC Magdeburg / SG Dynamo Potsdam / SC Dynamo Berlin (Wolfgang Güldenpfennig, Karl-Heinz Bußert, Martin Winter, Frank Dundr)
1978 - Gold in the double four: ASK Vorwärts Rostock / SG Dynamo Potsdam / SC Magdeburg / SC Dynamo Berlin (Joachim Dreifke, Karl-Heinz Bußert, Martin Winter, Frank Dundr)
1979 - Bronze in double sculls: SG Dynamo Potsdam / ASK Vorwärts Rostock (Karl-Heinz Bußert, Klaus Kröppelien)
1979 - Gold in double fours: ASK Vorwärts Rostock / SG Dynamo Potsdam / SC Magdeburg (Peter Kersten, Klaus Kröppelien, Karl-Heinz Bußert, Joachim Dreifke)
1980 - Gold in double sculls: SG Dynamo Potsdam (Karl-Heinz Bußert, Rüdiger Reiche)
1980 - Gold in double fours: SG Dynamo Potsdam (Karl-Heinz Bußert, Rüdiger Reiche, Olaf Danneberg, Michael Zeidler)
1981 - Bronze in double sculls: SG Dynamo Potsdam (Karl-Heinz Bußert, Rüdiger Reiche)
1981 - Silver in the double quad: DRSV selection II (Klaus Kröppelien, Uwe Mund, Rüdiger Reiche, Karl-Heinz Bußert)
1982 - Silver in a double scull: SG Dynamo Potsdam (Karl-Heinz Bußert, Rüdiger Reiche)
1982 - Gold in the double quad: SG Dynamo Potsdam / SC Magdeburg / SC Chemie Halle (Karl-Heinz Bußert, Uwe Mund, Uwe Heppner, Martin Winter)
1983 - Bronze in double sculls: SG Dynamo Potsdam (Karl-Heinz Bußert, Rüdiger Reiche)
1983 - Gold in double fours: ASK Vorwärts Rostock / SG Dynamo Potsdam / SC Magdeburg (Martin Winter, Klaus Kröppelien, Karl-Heinz Bußert, Joachim Dreifke)
1984 - Gold in double sculls: SG Dynamo Potsdam (Karl-Heinz Bußert, Rüdiger Reiche)
1984 - Bronze in the double quad: SG Dynamo Potsdam (Karl-Heinz Bußert, René Bollinger, Frank Strache, Olaf Danneberg)
1985 - Silver in double sculls: SG Dynamo Potsdam (Karl-Heinz Bußert, Jens Köppen)
1985 - Silver in the double quad: DRSV selection I (Karl-Heinz Bußert, Jens Köppen, Rüdiger Reiche, Uwe Sägling)

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 , page 55.

Individual evidence

↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In: New Germany . ZEFYS newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (free registration required).
↑ Neues Deutschland, October 15, 1986, p. 7

Web links

Karl-Heinz Bußert in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
German successes at world championships
Medalist rowing

personal data
SURNAME	Bussert, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Olympic champion in rowing
DATE OF BIRTH	January 8, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brandenburg on the Havel

[1] About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In: New Germany . ZEFYS newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (free registration required).

[2] Neues Deutschland, October 15, 1986, p. 7