Jörg Puttlitz

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Jörg Puttlitz (born August 25, 1962 in Hagen ) is a German rower . Puttlitz was part of the Ruhr Vierer , one of the world's best boats in the four-man boat class in the 1980s .

Sporting development

As a rower from the Hansa rowing club from 1898 (Dortmund), he began rowing in 1976 and rowed in the same boat with his club mate Norbert Keßlau in the youth sector . In 1983, Puttlitz and Keßlau moved to the Witten brothers Guido and Volker Grabow in the four-man coached by Günter Petersmann .

Successes (selection)

The newly composed four-man from the Ruhr won the title at the German Championships and won the World Rowing Championships in Duisburg. The four rowers defended the German championship title from 1984 to 1986. At the 1984 Olympic Games , the four-man finished fourth, one and a half seconds behind the Danish bronze medalists. In 1985 the four rowers repeated the world championship win of 1983. The following year they became runner-up behind the boat from the United States .

For this he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf in 1986 .

In 1987 Keßlau took a break, the Grabow brothers and Puttlitz won the German championships together with Georg Bauer from Essen. In 1988 Keßlau returned to the foursome. The four-man from the Ruhr was subject to a racing community with Eckhardt Schultz , Ansgar Wessling , Matthias Mellinghaus and Thomas Möllenkamp at the German championships in 1988 . These four rowers included in the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul to Germany rollercoaster , with whom she won gold. Before the Olympic Games, Keßlau took the position of batsman in the Ruhr four-man, and the boat took third place in Seoul. In 1989 Keßlau and Puttlitz together with Mark Mauerwerk and Frank Dietrich from Würzburg were once again German champions in the four-man championship. In 1985, 1986 and 1989 Keßlau and Puttlitz also won the German championships in eighth place .

literature

  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany. Seoul 1988 . Frankfurt am Main 1988

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual review 1986 of the Rowing Club Witten: Volker and Guido Grabow, Jörg Puttlitz and Norbert Keßlau received the silver laurel leaf awarded by the Federal President. Presented by Federal Minister of the Interior Zimmermann
personal data
SURNAME Puttlitz, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rower
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen