Rudiger helmet

Rüdiger helmet with soldiers of the NVA Air Force (1980)

Rüdiger Helm (born October 6, 1956 in Neubrandenburg ) is a former German canoeist who won three Olympic gold medals for the GDR.

At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal , he won bronze in canoe racing in a four-person kayak (K4) over 1000 m and over 500 m in a single kayak (K1). In the K1 over 1000 m he won the gold medal .

At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow , he won bronze over 500 m in K4 and two gold medals in K1 over 1000 m and K4 over 1000 m.

In the spring of 2009 he worked briefly as the national coach of the dragon boat national team of the German Canoe Association .

Awards (selection)

• 1976: Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
• 1980: Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
• 1984: Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit

Web links

• Rüdiger Helm in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Rüdiger Helm is the new trainer for the national dragon boat team" , DKV announcement from December 19, 2008 on its website, viewed on January 12, 2009
2. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).