Mario von Appen ( German: Mario von Appen ; July 31, 1965 , Hamburg ), a German kayaker , played for the German national team in the late 1980s and first half of the 1990s. Champion of the Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, two-time world champion, multiple winner and prize winner of national championships.
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| A country |  Germany |
| Specialization | kayak fours |
| Date of Birth | July 31, 1965 (54 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Hamburg , Germany |
| Growth | 186 cm |
| Weight | 87 kg |
Biography
Mario von Uppen was born on July 31, 1965 in Hamburg . He began to actively engage in kayaking in early childhood, was trained in the sports club of the Hamburg police and later in the canoe association of the city of Essen .
The first major success at the adult international level was in the 1989 season, when he joined the German national team and attended the World Championships in Bulgarian Plovdiv, from where he brought the silver dignity, won by four-seater crews at a distance of 500 meters - together with team partners Volker Kreutzer , Thomas Pfrang and Rainer Scholl took second place, losing to the crew from the USSR.
After the reunification of Germany due to too high competition in the national team, Apen did not get into the main team for a long time and did not participate in major international regattas. He returned to the base only in 1992, when one of the Detref Hoffman team leaders was disqualified for using illegal substances. Thanks to a series of successful performances, he was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona , where, being in the crew of Thomas Reineck , Andre Volleba and Oliver Kegel , he won a gold medal in fours at a distance of 1000 meters.
Having become the Olympic champion, Appen continued to perform at the highest level for the next several years and won a number of significant victories. So, at the 1993 World Cup in Copenhagen with the same four-seater crew, he went up to the podium three times: won gold medals in kilometer and ten-kilometer races, while at five hundred meters he became a silver medalist, lost to the Russian four Viktor Denisov , Anatoly Tishchenko , Alexander Ivanik and Oleg Gorobiya . A year later, at the World Championships in Mexico City he received bronze medals in the kilometer classification of fours, passing ahead the teams of Russia and Poland [1] .
The last significant result was shown in 1995 at the home world championships in Duisburg, when he won the silver medal in the 500 meter race with Detlef Hoffman, Thomas Reineck and Mark Zabel - the gold went to the Russians Denisov, Tishchenko, Gorobiy and Sergey, who joined them Verlinu . Shortly after these competitions, Mario von Appen decided to end his career as a professional athlete, giving way to young German rowers in the national team [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Nationales Olympisches Komitee für Deutschland: Barcelona 92. Die deutsche Olympiamannschaft. Frankfurt am main 1992
- ↑ Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Men's Kayak Fours 1000 Meters." In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. pp. 477-8.
Links
- Mario von Uppen - Olympic stats on Sports-Reference.com
- Mario von Appen - medals at major international competitions
- Lists of kayaking and canoeing champions and prize winners (1936-2007 )