Ulrich Papke

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Ulrich Papke (born March 4, 1962 in Neuruppin ) is a former German canoeist .

Ulrich Papke spent his childhood in Potsdam and attended the Heinrich von Kleist School , formerly POS 15, until he switched to the sports school Potsdam "Friedrich Ludwig Jahn" . His father was the theater and film actor Horst Papke , who for many years at Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam and died in 1990 at the age of 60.

Sports career

Ulrich Papke, who belonged to the ASK Vorwärts Potsdam , became world champion in the singles canoe in 1981 . Due to very strong competition in his own team, he switched to Ingo Spelly in the two-man Canadier . In 1986 both won bronze in two at the World Championships. Two years later they won the GDR championships in two, they were then third in the 1000 m, 1987 over 500 m, at the World Cup. Papke was not nominated for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul . At the games four years later in Barcelona he formed a team again with Spelly. The duo won gold over 1000 m and silver over 500 m.

For winning a medal at the 1992 Olympic Games, he received the Silver Laurel Leaf on June 23, 1993.

In the same year they were awarded the Bambi for their achievements . In 1995 they were the last German champions over 1000 m and then ended their sports career.

In 1984 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver in the GDR .

successes

GDR championships

  • 1982 2nd place, men 500 m CI Papke (ASK Vorwärts Potsdam)
  • 1985 2nd place, men 500 m CI Papke (ASK Vorwärts Potsdam)
  • 1985 GDR champion, men 500 m C II, Papke / Madeja (ASK Vorwärts Potsdam)
  • 1986 2nd place, men 500 m C II, Papke / Spelly (ASK Vorwärts Potsdam)
  • 1987 2nd place, men 500 m C II, Papke / Spelly (ASK Vorwärts Potsdam)
  • 1989 3rd place, men 500 m CI Papke (ASK Vorwärts Potsdam)
  • 1989 GDR champion, men 500 m C II, Monday / Papke (SC Berlin-Grünau / ASK Vorwärts Potsdam)

World championships

  • 1981 in Nottingham Gold, C1, 1000 m, Papke
  • 1983 in Tampere silver, C1, 500 m, Papke
  • 1985 in Mechelen bronze, C2, 500 m, Madeja / Papke
  • 1986 in Montreal Bronze, C2, 500 m Papke / Spelly
  • 1990 in Posen Gold, C2, 1000 m, and Silver, C2, 500 m, Papke / Spelly
  • 1991 in Paris silver C4, 1000 m
  • 1993 in Copenhagen bronze, C2, 1000 m
  • 1995 in Duisburg bronze, C4, 1000 m

Olympic Summer Games

  • 1992 in Barcelona gold, C2 men, 1,000 m and silver, C2 men, 500 m Papke / Spelly

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 , p. 369.
  • Volker Kluge: Summer Olympic Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 .
  • Sven Simon + SID : Olympic Games 1992 Barcelona Albertville. Copress Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-7679-0351-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V., VIBSS: The Federal President and his duties 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 1992 Olympic and Paralympic Games with the Silver bay leaf made of ...
  2. ↑ Bambi Awards 1992 ( Memento from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ New Germany , 1./2. September 1984, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Papke, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German canoeists
DATE OF BIRTH March 4th 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuruppin