Peter Gorny (rower)

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Günter Bergau and Peter Gorny (right) 1964

Peter Gorny (born April 20, 1941 in Ammendorf ) is a former rower from the GDR who won a world title and two European titles.

Career

The two-man with helmsman from ASK Vorwärts Rostock with Günter Bergau , Peter Gorny and helmsman Karl-Heinz Danielowski won four GDR championship titles in a row from 1962 to 1965, in 1967 they won for the fifth time; In 1966 and 1968, the three took second place. In between, in 1965, together with Günter Roock and Jochen Mietzner, they also achieved a championship success in the four-man with helmsman . In 1969 Werner Klatt , Karl-Heinz Prudöhl , Gorny and Bernd Meerbach won the four-man championship . In 1971 Werner Klatt and Peter Gorny rowed the title in two without a helmsman .

Internationally, Bergau, Gorny and Danielowski won the European championship in two with helmsman in 1964 in Amsterdam. Bergau and Gorny achieved second place in Vichy in 1967 in a two-man without a helmsman behind the Americans Hough and Johnson. In 1969 in Klagenfurt, Klatt, Prudöhl, Gorny and Meerbach took third place in the four without a helmsman. Gorny won his second European title in 1971 together with Werner Klatt in a two-man without a helmsman, after the two had become world champions in St. Catharines the year before . Only at the Olympic Games was Gorny unsuccessful. In 1964 in Tokyo he missed the Olympic final with Bergau and Danielowski as well as in Mexico City in 1968 with the GDR eighth, in both regattas the boats with Gorny took seventh place.

Web links

Commons : Peter Gorny  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ GDR championships for two with a helmsman
  2. ^ GDR championships foursome with helmsman
  3. ^ GDR championships foursome without a helmsman
  4. ^ GDR championships for two without a helmsman
  5. ↑ Results European Rowing Championships two-man without
personal data
SURNAME Gorny, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rower
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Ammendorf