Lars Hinneburg

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Lars Hinneburg (born June 15, 1965 in Rostock ) is a former swimming athlete from the GDR .

Career

Lars Hinneburg, who competed for SC Empor Rostock until 1985 , was 1980 European Junior Champion over 400 meters freestyle. From 1982 Hinneburg placed in the medal ranks at GDR championships, but could never win an individual route. At the European Swimming Championships in 1985 he competed with the four-by-100-meter freestyle relay, which won silver behind the relay from Germany in the line-up of Dirk Richter , Sven Lodziewski , Lars Hinneburg and Jörg Woithe .

In 1986 Hinneburg moved to Berlin to study foreign trade and now started for SC Dynamo Berlin . With the four-by-200-meter freestyle relay he won four GDR championship titles in a row from 1986 to 1989 , in 1988 he also won the four-by-100-meter freestyle relay, after which he won the second season in Berlin in 1986 and 1987 finished second. At the 1986 World Swimming Championships , he won the gold medal with the four-by-200-meter freestyle relay in the line-up of Lars Hinneburg, Thomas Flemming , Dirk Richter and Sven Lodziewski, ahead of the relay from Germany and the USA. In the following year, the long relay from Germany won the European Swimming Championships in 1987, ahead of the GDR relay with Hinneburg, Flemming, Steffen Zesner and Lodziewski.

At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 , Hinneburg only competed in the long relay in the preliminary run. In the final, Uwe Daßler , Sven Lodziewski, Thomas Flemming and Steffen Zesner won the silver medal behind the US relay, and according to the rule that has been in effect since 1984, Hinneburg also received a medal for his preliminary run. The four-by-100-meter freestyle relay, made up of Dirk Richter, Thomas Flemming, Lars Hinneburg and Steffen Zesner, won the bronze medal behind the US relay and the Soviet relay.

After the reunification , Lars Hinneburg returned to Rostock, he works in marketing.

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SURNAME Hinneburg, Lars
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German swimming athlete
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock