Willi Eichhorn

Willi Eichhorn (born August 23, 1908 , † May 25, 1994 ) was a German rower who became Olympic champion in 1936 with the two-man without a helmsman .

Willi Eichhorn from Mannheim RC from 1875 , together with Walter Zahn, took second place in the German Championship in 1932, and in 1934 the two rowers took third place. In 1935 Hugo Strauss joined Eichhorn and the two finished second in the championship. The following year, the two rowers were able to win the title and thus qualify for the 1936 Olympic Games . There the two rowed their way straight into the final with a victory in the third heat. In the final they won by three seconds ahead of the boat from Denmark. In 1938, the two Mannheimers finished second again in the German championship.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .

Web links

• Willi Eichhorn in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• German championships in two without a helmsman