Lutz Altepost

Lutz Altepost
nation	Germany
birthday	October 6, 1981
place of birth	Emsdetten
Career
discipline	Canoe racing
Boat class	Kayak (K1, K4)
society	KG Essen KC Potsdam
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 2 × 1 × 2 × EM medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze 2008 Beijing K4 1000 m Canoe World Championships bronze 2003 Gainesville K1 500 m silver 2005 Zagreb K1 500 m gold 2005 Zagreb K4 1000 m bronze 2006 Szeged K1 500 m gold 2007 Duisburg K4 1000 m
last change: May 21, 2010

Lutz Altepost (born October 6, 1981 in Emsdetten ) is a former German canoeist and current trainer .

Career

Altepost, who started in this sport at the age of 10, achieved his first successes during his school days. After starting out with the Canu-Club Emsdetten, he switched to KG Essen at the beginning of his international career . Since the beginning of 2007 he has started for the KC Potsdam , after having trained for several years at the Olympic base in Potsdam (coach: Rolf-Dieter Amend ). First, he was sporting a soldier of the sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr . From 2005 he studied mechanical engineering at the Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences .

In addition to the single kayak, Altepost has been riding in the four-man kayak of the German team for a long time and in 2005, after a change in line-up due to the poor performance (8th place) at the European championships, he became batsman of the parade boat. Since this year he has also been the athletes' spokesman for racing canoeists.

In spring 2007 he was unable to take part in the national qualifying regattas due to illness and was only nominated for the World Championships on non-Olympic distances. Shortly before the World Championships in Duisburg , he was again batsman in the 1000 m foursome and then surprisingly led the team to win the title. At the 2008 Olympics , he won the bronze medal with the foursome.

For this he received the silver laurel leaf from Federal President Koehler.

He has been a trainer at KC Potsdam since winter 2010.

Sporting successes (selection)

Olympic games

• 2004 - 6th place K1 500 m
• 2008 - Bronze K4 1000 m

Canoe World Championships

• 2002 - 7th place K4 200 m
• 2003 - Bronze K1 500 m
• 2005 - Gold K4 1000 m, Silver K1 500 m
• 2007 - Gold K4 1000 m

European Canoe Championships

• 2004 - 4th place K1 500 m
• 2005 - silver K1 500 m

Junior World Championships

• 1999 - Gold K4 500 m, Gold K4 1,000 m

Web links

• Lutz Altepost in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Lutz Altepost's profile at the German Canoe Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German.China.ORG.CN: November 21, 2008 Sports honor: .... Federal President Koehler has awarded the medal winners of the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games 2008 with the silver laurel leaf .