Reinhard Eiben

Reinhard Eiben medal table
Canoe slalom
German Democratic Republic
Olympic Summer Games
gold	Munich 1972	Canadians

Reinhard Eiben (born December 4, 1951 in Crossen ) is a former German canoeist . He became Olympic champion and world champion in canoe slalom for the GDR .

Career

Eiben started canoeing on the Zwickauer Mulde . In 1968 he was delegated from the Zwickau Canoe Club to the SC DHfK Leipzig . At the World Cup in 1971, he finished 13th.

At the 1972 Olympic Games , Olympic canoe slalom competitions were held for the first time. On the Augsburg ice canal , Eiben won in the single canoe clearly ahead of the German Reinhold Kauder , the reigning world champion. In 1973 Eiben became world champion in the Muotatal .

He won silver in the team competition in 1973 and 1975 and became world champion in 1977 with Peter Massalski and Lutz Körner . After the 1977 World Cup, in which Eiben took eighth place in the individual competition, he ended his career.

The trained industrial blacksmith worked for the Leipzig district, after 1989 he moved to Schleswig-Holstein.

Awards (selection)

• 1972: Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
• 1974: Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze

literature

• Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 .
• Short biography about:  Eiben, Reinhard . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World champion in canoe slalom

Web links

• Reinhard Eiben in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )