Werner Loeckle

Werner E. Loeckle (born May 4, 1916 - March 20, 1996 ) was a German rower who won an Olympic bronze medal with an eighth in 1936.

Werner Ernst Loeckle rowed for the rowing company Wiking Berlin. At the German Championship in Berlin in 1936, the eighth of Wiking Berlin won ahead of two eights, which had been formed as cross-club rowing communities for the Olympic Games. The eighth of Wiking Berlin qualified for the Olympic regatta , which, like the German championship, was held on the Berlin-Grünau regatta route . The boat in the line-up of Alfred Rieck , Helmut Radach , Hans Kuschke , Heinz Kaufmann , Gerd Völs , Werner Loeckle, Hans-Joachim Hannemann , Herbert Schmidt and helmsman Wilhelm Mahlow took second place behind the boat from the third run at the Olympic regatta Switzerland, but was able to qualify as the winner of the first intermediate run for the final. In the finals, the first three boats reached the finish line within a second, the boat from the United States won ahead of the Italians and the Germans.

Völs, Loeckle, Hannemann and Schmidt had taken second place in the four without a helmsman in the German championship in 1936 in addition to the title in eighth , in 1937 the four rowers took third place.

Loeckle was a resident gynecologist in Frankfurt am Main from 1953 to 1996. He was also the author of numerous books.

literature

• Swimming like never before Neuromedizin Verlag, Bad Hersfeld 2003, ISBN 978-3-930926-19-0

Web links

• Werner Loeckle in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• German champions in the eighth
• German champions in four without a helmsman
• Literature in the DNB

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Loeckle. Retrieved November 12, 2011 . 
2. ↑ Dr. med. univ. Alois Dengg - doctor for general and regulatory medicine. Retrieved November 12, 2011 .