Peter Kohnke

Kohnke (right) at the 1960 Olympic Games (left Enrico Forcella )

Peter Kohnke (born October 9, 1941 in Königsberg , † April 3, 1975 in Bremervörde ) was a German sports shooter and Olympic champion.

At the age of 16, Kohnke became junior world champion in small-bore three-position competition in Moscow. In 1959 he became vice European champion in prone shooting with the small bore rifle in Milan. At the age of 18 he won the Olympic gold medal in prone shooting at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. With 590 rings, he was one ring ahead of the American James Hill .

Kohnke came to Bremervörde with his parents in 1945 . He joined the Schützengesellschaft zu Bremervörde , where he trained together with Bernd Klingner . In Klingner's Olympic victory in 1968 in the three-position battle, Kohnke was also in an Olympic final and was six rings behind Klingner's Olympic seventh.

For his achievements in shooting sports he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on December 9, 1960.

After training as a technical draftsman, Peter Kohnke went on to study and became a civil engineer. In 1975 he died in a traffic accident. He left behind his wife and 2 young children.

literature

Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .
National Olympic Committee for Germany: Mexico 1968. Our team . Frankfurt 1968

Individual evidence

^ Sports report of the Federal Government of September 26, 1973 to the Bundestag - Printed matter 7/1040 - page 75

personal data
SURNAME	Kohnke, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German shooting athlete, Olympic champion in Rome in 1960
DATE OF BIRTH	October 9, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH	3rd April 1975
Place of death	Bremervörde

[1] Sports report of the Federal Government of September 26, 1973 to the Bundestag - Printed matter 7/1040 - page 75