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Maximilian "Max" Raub (born April 13, 1926 - † November 9, 2019 in Vienna ) was an Austrian canoeist . He won two Olympic medals in a two-person kayak.
Life
At the Canoe World Championships in Copenhagen in 1950, the two Viennese Max Raub and Herbert Wiedermann won the bronze medal in a two-person kayak over 500 meters behind two Swedish boats. In the 4 x 500 meter canoe relay, the Swedes with Gert Fredriksson won ahead of the hosts from Denmark, the Austrian relay with Herbert Klepp , Max Raub, Herbert Wiedermann and Günther Rührnschopf received the bronze medal. At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 , the relay was not on the program. Raub and Wiedermann won the bronze medal behind the boats from Finland and Sweden in the kayak double over the 1000 meter distance. In the 10,000 meter distance the Finns also won ahead of the Swedish boat, behind the Hungarians Raub and Wiedermann took fourth place. Canoeists won both Austrian medals in Helsinki: In addition to the bronze medal from Raub and Wiedermann, Gertrude Liebhart won silver in a single kayak.
At the Canoe World Championships in Mâcon in 1954, Raub and Wiedermann won bronze with the two Linzers Alfred Schmidtberger and Hermann Salzner in the relay behind the Swedish and Hungarian canoeists. On the 10,000 meter course, Raub and Wiedermann won the world championship ahead of Swedes Sigvard Johansson and Rolf Fjellmann . The 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne marked the end of the two-person kayak career with Raub and Wiedermann . The two won the bronze medal again over 1000 meters behind the boats from Germany and the Soviet Union. The two world champions did not compete on the long distance, Salzner and Schmidtberger took eleventh place. As four years before, Austria won two medals in Melbourne and again both on the regatta course: In addition to Raub and Wiedermann, Alfred Sageder and Josef Kloimstein also received bronze medals in rowing.
Raub lived in Höflein on the Danube , and was buried there.
Awards (excerpt)
literature
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .
Web links
- Max Raub in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- World Championships 10,000 m
- World Championships relay
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary of the Austrian Canoe Association , November 22, 2019. Accessed November 29, 2019.
- ↑ The Austrian canoe family mourns Maximilian "Max" robbery. In: kanuverband.at. November 19, 2019, accessed November 21, 2019 .
- ^ Austrian Olympic medalist Max Raub has passed away. In: nachrichten.at. November 21, 2019, accessed November 21, 2019 .
- ^ Obituary by Max Raub. In: ooe-kanuverband.at. November 22, 2019, accessed August 24, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Robbery, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Robbery, Maximilian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian canoeists |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1926 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 9th November 2019 |
| Place of death | Vienna |