Pavel Hofmann
Pavel Hofmann (born January 29, 1938 in Prague ) is a former Czechoslovak rower . He won an Olympic bronze medal and was European champion in 1963.
Athletic career
The 1.79 m tall Pavel Hofmann won his first international medal at the European Championships in Mâcon in 1959 when he won the silver medal behind the boat from the Federal Republic of Germany with the eighth from Czechoslovakia. At the 1960 Olympic Games , Hofmann competed in a four-man with a helmsman . The crew won their preliminary run, but were eliminated in the semi-finals.
Three years later he joined the European Championships in Copenhagen in 1963 together with Vladimír Andrs in double sculls . The two won ahead of the US double scull with Seymour Cromwell and Donald Spero as well as Oleg Tyurin and Boris Dubrowski from the Soviet Union.
At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, Andrs and Hofmann won the third run ahead of the boats from Belgium and France and thus made it directly to the final. In the final, Oleg Tyurin and Boris Dubrowski won by three seconds ahead of Seymour Cromwell and James Storm . One second behind the Americans, the two rowers from Czechoslovakia crossed the finish line in third place, over ten seconds ahead of fourth-placed Swiss Melchior Bürgin and Martin Studach .
Web links
- Pavel Hofmann in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Footnotes
- ↑ European Championships in eighth at sport-komplett.de
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . P. 579
- ↑ European championships in double sculls on sport-komplett.de
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . P. 758
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hofmann, Pavel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czechoslovak rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |