Vladimír Andrs
Vladimír Andrs (born May 12, 1937 in Prague ; † June 17, 2018 ) was a Czechoslovak rower . He won an Olympic bronze medal and was European champion in 1963.
Athletic career
The 1.76 m tall Vladimír Andrs took second place in the one behind Vyacheslav Ivanov from the Soviet Union and ahead of Seymour Cromwell from the United States at the 1961 European Championships in front of a home crowd in Prague . Two years later he competed at the European Championships in Copenhagen in 1963 with Pavel Hofmann in double sculls . The two won ahead of the US double scull with Seymour Cromwell and Donald Spero as well as Oleg Tyurin and Boris Dubrowski from the Soviet Union.
At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, Andrs and Hofmann won the third run ahead of the boats from Belgium and France and thus made it directly to the final. In the final, Oleg Tyurin and Boris Dubrowski won by three seconds ahead of Seymour Cromwell and James Storm . One second behind the Americans, the two rowers from Czechoslovakia crossed the finish line in third place, over ten seconds ahead of fourth-placed Swiss Melchior Bürgin and Martin Studach .
Web links
- Vladimír Andrs in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Footnotes
- ↑ Obituary (Czech)
- ↑ European championships in one on sport-komplett.de
- ↑ European championships in double sculls on sport-komplett.de
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . P. 758
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Andrs, Vladimír |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czechoslovak rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th June 2018 |