Stephan Volkert

Stephan Volkert (born August 7, 1971 in Cologne ) is a former German competitive rower who won two Olympic gold medals, six world championships and one junior world championship.

Volkert, 2.00 m tall and an average weight of 100 kg, was a scull rower and was 13 times German champion in double fours and double sculls and once German champion in single sprint. He started nationally for the RTHC Bayer Leverkusen , for which he has been working as a trainer since the end of his active career.

His greatest successes on the international stage are:

• Junior World Champion 1989,
• Four-time world champion in four-four (1993, 1999, 2002, 2003), plus one runner-up (1995) and one third (1994),
• two-time world champion in double sculls (1997, 1998),
• two Olympic victories in quadruples ( 1992 , 1996 ) and a bronze medal ( 2000 ).

For his sporting success he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on June 23, 1993 by Federal President von Weizsäcker .

Stephan Volkert is married and has three children (one boy and two girls). He lives with his family near Cologne.

Web links

• Stephan Volkert in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Leverkusen who's who

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V., VIBSS: The Federal President and his tasks in the field of sport: … On June 23, 1993, Federal President von Weizsäcker awarded disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the Olympic and Paralympic Games 1992, with the silver laurel leaf in a joint event out …