Marg, Harald

Harald Marg was born on September 26, 1954 in the city of Magdeburg . He began to actively engage in rowing at the age of eleven, trained at the local sports club of the same name "Magdeburg".

He achieved his first serious success at the adult international level in 1973, when he first got into the main team of the GDR national team and attended the World Championships in Finnish Tampere, where he brought the bronze dignity award won in the classification of four-seater kayaks at a distance of 1000 meters.

In 1975, Marg performed at the World Championships in Yugoslav Belgrade and received silver medals in doubles at five hundred meters and four at four thousand meters. Three years later, at similar competitions in the same Belgrade, he made a golden double, became the champion in two disciplines at once: in four at kilometer and half kilometer distances. A year later, at the home world championship in Duisburg, he repeated last year's achievement, defended both of his league titles. Thanks to a series of successful performances, he was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow - as part of a four-seater crew, which also included rowers Rüdiger Helm , Bernd Duvigno and Bernd Olbricht , overtook all rivals by a kilometer and received gold.

After the Moscow Olympics, Harald Marg remained in the main composition of the national team of the GDR and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, in 1981, he spoke at the World Championships in Nottingham, England, in four he took bronze at five hundred meters and gold at a thousand. The following season, at the World Championships in Belgrade, he added to his track record two silver awards obtained in the same disciplines. At the 1983 World Championships in Tampere, he received a silver medal in the kilometer race of four-seater kayaks and a gold medal in half a kilometer, thus becoming a six-time world champion.

For outstanding sports achievements he was awarded the silver order " For Merit to the Fatherland " (1980) ^[1] .

• Harald Marg - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
• Harald Marg - medals at major international competitions
• Lists of kayaking and canoeing champions and prize winners (1936-2007 )