Peter Funnekötter
Peter Funnekötter 
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 Germany
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| birthday | June 11, 1946 | ||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Munster , Germany | ||||||||||||||||||
| size | 190 cm | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 89 kg | ||||||||||||||||||
| job | dentist | ||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Rowing / Skull | ||||||||||||||||||
| society |
ARV Westfalen Münster rowing club at Baldeneysee Essen |
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| National squad | since 1970 | ||||||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||
| End of career | 1973 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Peter Funnekötter (born June 11, 1946 in Münster ) is a former German rower who won the Olympic bronze medal in the four-man four without a helmsman in 1972 .
Life
At the age of 14, Funnekötter became aware of rowing through a friend. If he started in the four without a helmsman, at the end of the 1960s he switched to the two without a helmsman due to a lack of success.
The rower from ARV Westfalen Münster was second in 1969 with Wolfgang Plottke at the German championships in two without a helmsman . After this unexpected success, Funnekötter was invited to the performance center in Essen, whereupon the most intense period of his sports career began for the dentistry student. In 1970 the two rowers formed a foursome with Joachim Werner Ehrig and Claus Schneggenburger . At the 1970 World Rowing Championships in St. Catherines, Canada, this four-man crossed the finish line behind the boat from SC Einheit Dresden and won the silver medal. In 1971 Franz Held got on board for Schneggenburger. In the line-up of Plottke, Held, Funnekötter, Ehrig, the boat took third place at the European Rowing Championships in Copenhagen in 1971, behind the four from Dresden and the boat from Norway. At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, the West German four-man rode in the same line-up as last year and again took third place, with the Dresden four-man winning ahead of the boat from New Zealand. In 1973 Funnekötter and Plottke won the German championship title with the eighth of the RK at Baldeneysee Essen .
He was named Sportsman of the Year by the Sports Association of the City of Münster at the 1972 Sports Ball. He was also honored on September 11, 1972 by being awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf .
After finishing his active career, he took his exams at the Medical Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University and opened his own practice in Münster as a doctor of dentistry in the early 1980s.
literature
- National Olympic Committee for Germany: Munich. Kiel. 1972. The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany. Frankfurt am Main 1972
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Westfälische Nachrichten : Olympic flame flares up again at Münsteraner: Peter Funnekötter took bronze in the rowing four in 1972 , Münster, Münster, August 13, 2016
- ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : The last round has started - high-speed final spurt: Many candidates are already giving full throttle in the new year , Münster's athlete of the year 2012, January 30, 2013
- ↑ Sports report of the federal government of September 26, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 - page 76
Web links
- Peter Funnekötter in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- German success at rowing world championships
- German successes at European rowing championships
- German championships in eighth
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| SURNAME | Funnekötter, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Muenster |