Matthias hardship

Matthias Ungemach (born May 21, 1968 in Dortmund ) is a former German rower who won two world championship titles in rowing and twice took part in the Olympic Games.

Hardly started as a youngster for the rowing club Meschede, later for the rowing club Hansa from Dortmund in 1898 and trained with Dieter Grahn and Ralf Holtmeyer . Affliction won with Armin Weyrauch 1990, the German Championship in coxless pair , then the national coach appointed both in Germany rollercoaster . At the 1990 World Championships on Lake Barrington in Tasmania, Weyrauch and Ungemach won with the eighth . In 1991, both switched to the four-man with helmsman to Armin Eichholz , Bahne Rabe and helmsman Jörg Dederding , in this line-up the boat won the title at the world championship in Vienna and set the world best time in the four-man with helmsman, unmatched to this day (2016) .

For the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​Rabe and Eichholz moved to eighth, Ungemach and Weyrauch, together with Dirk Balster and Markus Vogt, formed a four-man without a helmsman , who lost 0.15 seconds to the Slovenes in the battle for bronze in Barcelona and thus the took fourth place. After the Olympic Games in 1992, Trouble usually started with Colin von Ettingshausen in a pair without. In 1994, the two finished fourth at the Indianapolis World Cup. At the end of adversity's career, the two took part in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, where they finished 15th.

Matthias Ungemach studied electrical engineering at the University of Dortmund during his competitive sports career and then completed an MBA at the University of Münster . He married the eighth Olympic champion from 1988 Judith Zeidler . The family lives in Australia with their two sons and one daughter.

Hardly works as a rowing coach at the Mosman Rowing Club and St Augustine's College in Sydney. There he was able to develop some rowers for the Australian national team.

literature

• National Olympic Committee for Germany: Atlanta 96. The German Olympic team . Frankfurt am Main 1996

Web links

• Matthias Ungemach in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• German successes at world championships