Karl Sinzinger (rower, 1941)

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Karl Sinzinger (born November 13, 1941 in Linz ) is a former Austrian rower .

Sinzinger was active in international rowing from 1971 to 1973. When he first participated in the European rowing championships in 1971 , he rowed eighth in the Austrian men's eight with Martin Hinterleitner , Norbert Hlobil , Peter Preiß , Manfred Ruthner , Kurt-Wolfgang Sandhäugl , Franz Nitsche , Peter Bredl and helmsman Peter Wetzstein . This team was the first Austrian eighth since 1950 to take part in the European Rowing Championships. Sinzinger started with the same team at the Summer Olympics in Munich the following year . The team initially took 3rd place in the preliminary run, but was eliminated in the semifinals to qualify for the final. In the small final for places 7 to 12, the team finished last and thus reached twelfth place out of 15 participating teams.

Many of the Olympic rowers then ended their careers, so that only Sandhäugl, Preiß and Sinzinger remained from the eighth. Supplemented by Reinhard Höllmüller , they then took part in the four-man without a helmsman at the 1973 European Rowing Championships in Moscow and took 8th place. In the rowing world championships , which replaced the European rowing championships in the following year, Sinzinger no longer took part.

Sinzinger started for the Wiking rowing club in Linz, where he ran a locksmith's shop. In addition to his rowing activities, he was also an avid cross-country skier . His daughter Gabi Sinzinger was also a successful rower with two world championships, and his son Karl Sinzinger junior even took part twice for Austria in the Summer Olympics as a rower.

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  1. ↑ Sigi Lützow: The woman on the beat and her knowledge of finitude. Der Standard , April 22, 2012, accessed December 24, 2014 .
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SURNAME Sinzinger, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian rower
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz