Manfred Gelpke

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The GDR champion in 1969 in a foursome from left to right: Klaus Jacob , Manfred Gelpke, Roland Göhler , Dieter Schubert and helmsman Dieter Gaitzsch

Manfred Gelpke (born March 3, 1940 in Dresden ) is a former rower from the German Democratic Republic . In 1968 he won the silver medal in the four with helmsman at the Olympic Games .

Athletic career

Manfred Gelpke started for the SC Einheit Dresden and trained under Hans Eckstein . Together with Lothar Schmidt, he was runner-up in the GDR in 1963 and 1964 in two-man without a helmsman . From 1965 he sat in a double with Klaus Jacob , with whom he became GDR champion in 1966. In 1965 and 1970 he finished second in the eighth place in the GDR championship. In 1968 a purely Dresden eight won the GDR championship title. In this boat sat Frank Forberger , Dieter Grahn , Peter Kremtz , Frank Rühle , Klaus Jacob, Manfred Gelpke, Dieter Schubert , Roland Göhler and helmsman Dieter Semetzky .

From this boat, Hans Eckstein formed a four-man without a helmsman from Forberger, Grahn, Schubert and Rühle and a four-man with a helmsman from Jacob, Gelpke, Kremtz, Göhler and Semetzky for the 1968 Olympic Games . On the Xochimilco regatta course , the four-man won without gold, the four-man with brought silver behind the New Zealanders. Gelpke was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze for winning the silver medal . In 1969 he was once again GDR champion in the four.

Manfred Gelpke was a trained model maker. With a distance learning course at the DHfK , he graduated as a certified sports teacher. From 1978 he worked at the municipal vocational school in Dresden.

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 , p. 114.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ GDR championships in the eighth
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , November 9, 1968, p. 8
personal data
SURNAME Gelpke, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rower
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden