Michael Steinbach

Michael Steinbach
nation	Germany
birthday	3rd September 1969
place of birth	Ueberlingen ,  Germany
size	196 cm
Weight	100 kg
job	Business consultant
Career
discipline	Row , skull
society	Überlinger RC Bodan Ulmer RC Danube Rowing Club Favorite Hammonia
Trainer	Bernd Kuhn Lothar Trawiel Richard Wecke Werner Lormes
National squad	since 1987
status	resigned
End of career	1992
Medal table
Olympic games gold 1992 Barcelona Double fours  U23 world championships bronze 1988 Hazewinkel Double fours silver 1989 Bosbaan Double fours gold 1990 Ottensheim Double fours  Junior World Championships silver 1987 Cologne Double fours German championships gold 1989 Munich Double fours silver 1990 Duisburg Double fours gold 1991 Duisburg Double fours gold 1992 Munich Double fours

Michael Steinbach (born September 3, 1969 in Überlingen ) is a former German rower who became Olympic champion in 1992.

Life

Steinbach started his career at RC Donau in Ulm . The first international successes came with RC Bodan from Überlingen : in 1987 he took second place at the Junior World Championships with the German double scull . In 1989 he won his first German championship title in four-four. In 1991 Steinbach started after studying economics for the Hamburg rowing club Favorite Hammonia and rowed again for the German championship title, which he successfully defended in 1992. At the 1991 World Rowing Championships , Steinbach finished fourth with the German double scull. The following year, at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​the German double scull with André Willms , Stephan Volkert , Andreas Hajek and Michael Steinbach won the gold medal. Michael Steinbach was the only one of this crew to leave the crew after 1992.

Steinbach was the managing director of a large sports center in Constance from 1996 to 1998. He was operations manager (1998–2000) and managing director and spa director of the Kur und Bäder GmbH Bad Dürrheim (2000–2004). He has been self-employed with the Steinbach & Friends tourism consultancy since 2004 and has also been managing director of the Bodensee Campus study center in Konstanz, a cooperation partner of the Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Economics and Environment, since 2012 .

Honors

• Silver Laurel Leaf by Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker (1992)

literature

• National Olympic Committee for Germany: Barcelona 92. The German Olympic team . Frankfurt am Main 1992

Web links

• Michael Steinbach in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Michael Steinbach at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• German champions in double fours

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Successes of the Überlinger rowing club. In: ueberlinger-ruderclub.de. Retrieved January 22, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Bodensee Campus - An der Spitze , Bodensee Campus, accessed on August 6, 2014