Wilhelm Mahlow

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Wilhelm Mahlow (born January 18, 1914 ; † unknown) was a German rower who won a bronze medal with an eighth at the 1936 Summer Olympics .

Wilhelm Mahlow 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 and Herbert Schmidt with Mahlow as helmsman 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.

In 1937 Kaufmann and Mahlow switched to the four-man team , together with Willy Ewert , Erich Knorr and Walter Kaps, they won the German Championship and the European Championship in Amsterdam. In 1941 Mahlow won another German championship title with the eighth of the Berlin Rowing Club .

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SURNAME Mahlow, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rower
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1914
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century