Peter-Michael Kolbe
Peter-Michael Kolbe (born August 2, 1953 in Hamburg ) is a former German rower .
Kolbe was one of the world's best single rowers and won a total of five world championship titles: 1975, 1978, 1981, 1983 and 1986. After his first world championship, he was voted German athlete of the year in 1975 . However, his career is shaped by the fact that he only finished second in the 1976, 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games . In 1976 in Montréal and 1984 in Los Angeles he lost the final against the Finn Pertti Karppinen and in 1988 in Seoul against the GDR rower Thomas Lange . Nevertheless, three silver medals at three Olympic Games are an impressive record, and in 1980 the boycott of the Moscow Games prevented Kolbe from intervening in the fight for the Olympic victory and in 1984, at the decision of the FISA, the customized roller boom with which he 1981 and 1983 world champion was not allowed to use.
In 1981 he received the silver laurel leaf from Federal President Carstens .
After his active time, Kolbe was sports director of the German Rowing Association until 1994 . Until 2007 he lived with his family in Oslo . After a long marriage to the Norwegian Aina Moberg, Kolbe returned to his home country Germany. Here he married his former rowing colleague of the German national team Karin Kaschke in Lübeck in 2011.
The so-called "Kolbe syringe" was named after him, a manipulation of the athlete that is not prohibited. The background was a "vitamin injection" that Kolbe received before the finals of the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. Since he ultimately lost the race as the reigning world champion and thus a high favorite, despite a sovereign lead until shortly before the finish, against the then little-known Pertti Karppinen, the cause of this breakdown was sought in the administered injection.
In 2016, Kolbe was inducted into the Hall of Fame of German Sports as the fifth rower .
Web links
- Peter-Michael Kolbe at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
- Peter-Michael Kolbe in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Archives: Sports Awards (Silver Laurel): Award of the Silver Laurel Leaf to Peter Michael Kolbe, signature BArch B 122/29178
- ↑ Peter-Michael Kolbe - The Skuller Phenomenon. In: www.hall-of-fame-sport.de. Retrieved May 25, 2016 .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kolbe, Peter-Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd August 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |