Siegbert Horn
Siegbert Horn (born May 11, 1950 in Hartmannsdorf near Schönewalde ; † August 9, 2016 ) was a German canoeist, Olympic champion and world champion in canoe slalom , who competed for the GDR .
Horn was GDR youth champion in 1967 and 1968. In 1969 and 1971 he won the championship in single kayak in the adult class. In 1971 Horn won the individual competition at the World Championships in Merano , with the team he took second place. At the 1972 Olympic Games , Olympic canoe slalom competitions were held for the first time. On the Augsburg ice channel , Horn won just ahead of the Austrian Norbert Sattler . In 1973 Horn finished second behind Sattler at the World Championships in Muotatal , but won the team competition together with Christian Döring and Wolfgang Büchner . In 1975 in Skopje , Horn was once again individual world champion and took third place with the team.
The trained lathe operator started for the ASK Vorwärts Leipzig , he studied during his career and later worked as a qualified sports teacher at the University of Leipzig. Most recently, Siegbert Horn was a self-employed physiotherapist in Elsterwerda .
Horn succumbed to cancer on August 9, 2016.
Awards (selection)
- 1971 - Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
- 1972 - Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver
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 .
- Olaf W. Reimann: Horn, Siegbert . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- World champion in canoe slalom
- Siegbert Horn in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jochen Mayer: Test of courage on a channel copy . In: Saxon newspaper . August 15, 2016 ( online [accessed August 15, 2016]).
- ↑ Siegbert Horn's website ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 5, 2016
1972 Siegbert Horn | 1992 Pierpaolo Ferrazzi | 1996 Oliver Fix | 2000 Thomas Schmidt | 2004 Benoît Peschier | 2008 Alexander Grimm | 2012 Daniele Molmenti | 2016 Joseph Clarke
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Horn, Siegbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German canoeist, Olympic champion and world champion in canoe slalom |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hartmannsdorf near Schönewalde |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 2016 |