Karl-Heinz Prudöhl

Karl-Heinz Prudöhl (born December 3, 1944 in Eberhardsdorf near Danzig) is a former rower from the GDR . In 1976 Prudöhl was Olympic champion in eighth place .

Life

Prudöhl attended school from 1950 to 9th grade. In September 1959 he finished school and began an apprenticeship as a plumber and plumber in Grimmen. In 1962 he left the school after three years. A year later, in November 1963, Prudöhl decided to join the Volksmarine . There he joined the ASK Vorwärts Rostock sports club , where he trained football, boxing and, ultimately, rowing. From September 1964 to 1966 he made up his 10th grade at the Rostock adult education center. On May 20, 1966, Karl-Heinz Prudöhl married Margot Klippstein, then 23 years old. Shortly after the wedding, in September 1966, the first daughter was born. In 1968 he began his DHfK external studies for one year and then studied directly in Leipzig for two years. In 1969 the second daughter was born.

After completing his studies, he was appointed corvette captain in the Navy in 1976. In addition, after the end of his sporting career, he took on coaching duties in his club. As a trainer, he trained children from the 7th and 8th grades and young people between the ages of 15 and 16. Prudöhl worked as a trainer at ASK Vorwärts Rostock from 1978 to 1989. He got his coaching license in 1978. In 1989 the Olympic champion took off his NVA uniform and in 1990 went to the Bundeswehr to work as a sports teacher. At the same time he worked for 6 months as a teacher at the sports school in Münsterland. Since 1992 he has been head of the fitness area in a hotel in Warnemünde.

Athletic career

The rower from ASK Vorwärts Rostock could not qualify for the Olympic Games in 1968 in two without a helmsman because his partner fell ill. At the European Championships in 1969 he won bronze in a four-man without a helmsman , together with Werner Klatt , Peter Gorny and Bernd Meerbach . In the following year, Klatt and Gorny became world champions in two without, while Karl-Heinz Prudöhl, Jochen Mietzner , Rolf Zimmermann, Bernd Meerbach and helmsman Karl-Heinz Danielowski in a four with helmsman won world championship silver behind the Bodenseevier. After several changes to the line-up in the Rostock boats, Prudöhl missed the Olympic qualification again in 1972.

In 1973 the Rostockers Prudöhl, Klatt and Danielowski sat in the newly assembled GDR eight and became European champions. At the 1974 World Cup, the eighth disappointed with fourth place, but in 1975 he won the world title with Prudöhl and Klatt. In 1976 Prudöhl succeeded in participating in the Olympic Games in the third attempt . With Bernd Baumgart , Gottfried Döhn , Werner Klatt, Roland Kostulski , Hans-Joachim Lück , Dieter Wendisch , Ulrich Karnatz , Karl-Heinz Prudöhl and helmsman Karl-Heinz Danielowski, the boat became Olympic champion with over two seconds ahead of the British boat. For this success he also received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.

Sporting success in rowing

• 1969: European Championship, 3rd place in the four without a helmsman
• 1970: World Championship, 2nd place in a four-man with helmsman
• 1973: European Championship, 1st place eighth
• 1974: World Championship, 4th place eighth
• 1975: World Championship, 1st place eighth
• 1976: Olympic Games, 1st place eighth

In addition, Prudöhl won six championship titles in the GDR.

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 , 445.
• 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

• Karl-Heinz Prudöhl in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

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