Kurt Seiffert

Armin Kurt Seiffert (born December 21, 1935 in Detroit ) is a former American helmsman in rowing .

At the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 , the two-man with helmsman from the United States in the line-up of Arthur Ayrault , Conn Findlay and Kurt Seiffert won the prelim with about a second ahead of the Poles. In the semifinals, the German boat with Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck , Horst Arndt and Rainer Borkowsky also won with one second ahead of the Americans. Ayrault, Findlay and Seiffert won the final with a three second lead over the Germans, behind which the boat from the Soviet Union received the bronze medal ahead of the Poles.

Four years later, at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, Seiffert competed in a four-man team with Chuck Alm , Roy Rubin , Monte Stocker and Mike Yonker . In the run-up, the Americans took second place behind the boat from Czechoslovakia, then they won their reunion. With a fourth place in the semi-finals, the Americans missed the final.

Kurt Seiffert, who is 1.70 m tall, studied at Stanford University and was active there as a helmsman in the various rowing teams from 1955 to 1957. After graduation, he drove the boats of the Lake Washington Rowing Club in Seattle for several years . After the Olympic Games in 1960 he took up a medical degree at the University of Michigan , which he successfully completed in 1964. Seiffert then worked as a neurologist.

Web links

• Kurt Seiffert in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . P. 412
2. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . P. 579