Thomas Ahrens (rower)

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The 1964 European champions with helmsman Thomas Ahrens on the far left

Thomas Ahrens (born May 27, 1948 in Mölln ) is a former German helmsman in rowing . In 1964 he was second in the eighth place in the Olympic Games .

The rower from the Ratzeburg rowing club was part of the Germany eighth trained by Karl Adam from 1962 to 1964 . At the first rowing world championships , held in 1962 on the Rotsee near Lucerne , the eighth team won with Horst Meyer , Jürgen Plagemann , Klaus Aeffke , Klaus Behrens , Hans-Jürgen Wallbrecht , Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck , Ingo Kliefoth , Bernd Kruse and helmsman Thomas Ahrens in front of the boats from the Soviet Union and France. In 1963 the boat in the same line-up won the European Championships in Copenhagen ahead of the boats from the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia.

In 1964, Kliefoth and Kruse were replaced by Klaus Bittner and Jürgen Schröder . In the changed line-up, the boat won the European Championships in Amsterdam ahead of the boats from the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. At the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, the German eighth won his preliminary run ahead of the boats from the USA, Italy and Yugoslavia, while the boats from Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union won the other two preliminary runs. The boat from the USA, as well as the Italians and the Yugoslavs, also reached the finals via the hope races. While the Germans had beaten the boat from the USA by 28 hundredths of a second in the lead-up, the Americans distanced the Germans by five seconds in the final, behind the USA and Germany the boat from Czechoslovakia won the bronze medal.

On July 11, 1963, he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf for his athletic achievements .

literature

  • Bodo Harenberg (editorial): 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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sports report of the federal government of September 26, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 - page 74
personal data
SURNAME Ahrens, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rower
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Mölln