Theo Kleine

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Theodor "Theo" Kleine (born September 4, 1924 in Lünen ; † February 12, 2014 ibid) was a German canoeist . He took part in the 1956 Olympics and won a silver medal.

Career

During the Second World War , Kleine won his first title at the German Youth Championships. He won his first title at the German championships in the adult class in 1947. He won a total of seven championship titles by 1951 together with the canoeist Knepper. In 1954, together with Ernst Steinhauer from Mannheim, he won bronze at the World Championships in Macon on the 10,000 meter course. Theo Kleine started for the Lünen canoe and ski club until 1954 and moved to Bertasee Duisburg together with Georg Lietz in 1955 . In Duisburg the two canoeists had two strong partners in Michel Scheuer and Gustav Schmidt , with whom they were to win numerous championship titles in the four-person kayak over the next few years . At the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 , however, Kleine competed in a two-man kayak on the 10,000-meter course with Fritz Briel from Düsseldorf , and the two won the silver medal behind Hungarians János Urányi and László Fábián . In 1957 and 1959, Kleine won the European championship gold in a four-person kayak over 10,000 meters and silver over 1000 meters. The four-person kayak was even more successful at the 1958 World Cup in Prague . Scheuer, Lietz, Schmidt and Kleine won the world championship title both over 1000 meters and over 10,000 meters.

For winning the silver medal in 1956, he was awarded the silver bay leaf on January 21, 1957.

Theo Kleine ended his sporting career in 1960 and worked as a physical education teacher until his retirement.

German championship title

  • Two-person kayak 500 meters: 1955, 1956
  • Two-person kayak 1000 meters: 1948, 1950
  • Two-person kayak 10,000 meters: 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1957
  • Quad kayak 1000 meters: 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959
  • Quad kayak 10,000 meters: 1955, 1959
  • 4 x 500 meter relay: 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959
  • Team champion single kayak: 1956

literature

  • Bodo Harenberg (ed.): The stars of the sport from A-Z . Darmstadt 1970
  • Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .
  • Karl Lennartz and Walter Teutenberg: Olympic participants in Westphalia. Biographies Athens 1896 to Munich 1972 . Kassel 1993 ISBN 3-928562-58-4

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ According to all available print sources, Kleine was born on September 4th and also according to databaseolympics , only sports-reference has September 24th.
  2. ↑ Sports report of the federal government of September 29, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 - page 61
personal data
SURNAME Little one, Theo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Little one, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German canoeists
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Luenen
DATE OF DEATH 12th of February 2014
Place of death Luenen