Roland Kostulski

Roland Kostulski (born June 13, 1953 in Borna ) is a former rower from the German Democratic Republic who won an Olympic gold medal with an eighth in 1976 .

Kostulski rowed for the SC DHfK Leipzig under coach Jörg Weissig. In 1971 he was junior world champion in the four-man without a helmsman . In 1972 he took second place with the four-man at the GDR championships, and in 1973 third. In 1973 Kostulski also took third place together with Andreas Wolf in a two-man without helmsman ; In 1974 he rowed together with Bernd Baumgart to the runner-up in this boat class. In 1975 Kostulski moved to eighth and after the GDR championship title also won the title at the World Championships in Nottingham. The boat started with the cast of Karl-Heinz Prudöhl , Ulrich Karnatz , Roland Kostulski, Werner Klatt , Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich , Dieter Wendisch , Gottfried Döhn , Jürgen Arndt and helmsman Klaus-Dieter Ludwig . A year later at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , the GDR eighth won the gold medal. Bernd Baumgart, Gottfried Döhn, Werner Klatt, Roland Kostulski, Joachim Lück , Dieter Wendisch, Ulrich Karnatz, Karl-Heinz Prudöhl and helmsman Karl-Heinz Danielowski won both in the prelim and in the final before the British eighth. For this success, Roland Kostulski received the Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver in 1976 . In 1978 Roland Kostulski and Bernd Baumgart took third place at the GDR championships.

The DHfK graduate was deputy chairman of the SC DHfK Leipzig after the end of his career. After the fall of the wall, Kostulski was the sports director of the SC DHfK Leipzig eV. Beginning in 1992, he became more involved in sports marketing and economic tasks. In 2005 Kostulski was asked to work in a managerial position for the sport again. From 2005 to 2014 he ran the office of the Saxon Gymnastics Association. In December 2013 his Olympic gold medal was stolen when a house was broken into.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Lexicon athletes in the GDR. New life, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-355-01759-6 .

Web links

• Roland Kostulski in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• German success at rowing world championships
• GDR championships in four without a helmsman
• GDR championships in two without a helmsman
• GDR championships in the eighth

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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).