Marcus Mielke

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Marcus Mielke (* 31 January 1975 in Mühlacker ) is a former German lightweight - rowers . He was world champion in 1996 and third in the 1997 world championship.

Athletic career

In 1994 and 1995, Marcus Mielke won the bronze medal in the lightweight foursome without a helmsman at the Nations Cup , a forerunner of the U23 World Championships . At the 1996 World Championships in Glasgow , Mielke competed in the lightweight eighth and won the title in front of the boats from Denmark and Canada.

In 1997 he switched to the lightweight foursome. Together with Roland Händle , Jan Herzog and Martin Weis, he won the bronze medal behind the Danes and the French at the 1997 World Championships . In 1998 in Cologne , the German foursome took 13th place. At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 , the German four-man competed with Roland Händle, Marcus Mielke, Thorsten Schmidt and Martin Weis and took third place. With Björn Spaeter for Martin Weis, the four finished last in the semi-finals and in the B-final.

Marcus Mielke won five German championship titles:

  • Lightweight foursome:
    • 1997 Roland Händle, Marcus Mielke, Jan Herzog, Martin Weis
    • 2000 Roland Händle, Marcus Mielke, Thorsten Schmidt, Martin Weis
  • Lightweight eighth: 1996, 1997 and 1998

At the time of his participation in the Olympics, Marcus Mielke was a sports student. Marcus Mielke rowed for the Potsdam rowing club Germania .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Lightweight foursome at the 2000 Olympic Games in Olympedia
  2. ^ German championships in lightweight foursome at rrk-online
  3. ^ German championships in the lightweight eighth at rrk-online
  4. ^ National Olympic Committee for Germany (publisher): Sydney 2000. The German Olympic team. Frankfurt am Main 2000. p. 390
personal data
SURNAME Mielke, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rower
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühlacker