Karl-Heinz Busert ( German: Karl-Heinz Bußert ; born , ) - a German rower who played for the German Democratic rowing team in the 1970s and the 1980s. Champion of the Summer Olympic Games in Montreal , five-time world champion, winner of many regattas of national and international importance.
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| Club | Dynamo ( Potsdam ) |
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| Growth | 194 cm |
| Weight | 84 kg |
Biography
Karl-Heinz Busert was born on January 8, 1955 in the city of Brandenburg an der Havel , East Germany . He was trained in Potsdam at the local sports club Dynamo.
He first declared himself in rowing in 1975, becoming the silver medalist among the twos in the classification of the national championship of the GDR.
The first serious success at the adult international level was achieved in the 1976 season, when he joined the main team of the East German national team and thanks to a series of successful performances he was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the Montreal Summer Olympics . The crew, which also included rowers Wolfgang Güldenpfenning , Rüdiger Reiche and Michael Wolfgram , took first place in the men's doubles and thus won the Olympic gold medal. For this outstanding achievement at the end of the season he was awarded the Order of Merit to the Fatherland in silver [1] .
After the Montreal Olympics, Busert remained in the GDR rowing team and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, in 1977, in the doubles he won the World Cup in Amsterdam . At the next world championships in 1978 in Karapiro and 1979 in Bled , he was also the best in the doubles program.
In 1981, he added to the track record a gold award received by the fours at the world championships in Munich .
At the 1982 world championship in Lucerne, he again took the first place instead of the doubles, thus becoming the five-time world champion in rowing.
In 1983, at the World Championships in Duisburg, he won a silver medal in the doubles program, skipping forward the crew from West Germany.
He was considered as a candidate for participation in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , however, East Germany, along with several other countries of the eastern bloc, boycotted these competitions for political reasons. Instead, he performed at the alternative regatta Druzhba-84 in Moscow, where he won the gold medal in fours.
The last time showed any significant result in the international arena in the 1985 season, when in the doubles he won the silver medal at the World Championships in Hasevinkel . Soon after the end of these competitions he decided to end his career as an athlete.
Subsequently, he worked as a coach in Potsdam Dynamo, served in the People’s Police .
Notes
- ↑ Von der Ehrung für die Olympiamannschaft der DDR. Hohe staatliche Auszeichnungen verliehen. Vaterländischer Verdienstorden in Silber (German) . Neues Deutschland . ZEFYS Zeitungsportal der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (10. September 1976). Date of appeal April 10, 2018.
Links
- Karl-Heinz Busert - Olympic stats on Sports-Reference.com
- Karl-Heinz Busert - profile on the FISA website
- Karl-Heinz Busert (English) - page on the website of the International Olympic Committee