Wolfgang Mager ( German: Wolfgang Mager ; born , ) is a German rower who played for the German Democratic rowing team in the 1970s. Two-time Olympic champion, four-time world champion, winner of many regattas of national and international importance.
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| Club | DHfK ( Leipzig ) |
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| Growth | 190 cm |
| Weight | 87 kg |
Biography
Wolfgang Mager was born on August 24, 1952 in the city of Kamenz , East Germany . He was trained in Leipzig at the local sports club DHfK.
He first declared himself in rowing in 1970, winning a gold medal in oar steering deuces at the junior world championship in Greece.
The first serious success at the adult international level was achieved in the 1972 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 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich . Together with his team mate Siegfried Britske, he won first place in doubles without a helmsman and thereby won the Olympic gold medal.
He was the best in wheelless deuces at the GDR championship in 1973, but at the European Championship in Moscow he could not get into the number of winners, showing only the fourth result in this discipline.
In 1974, in the steering wheelless fours he won the world championship in Lucerne . A year later, at similar competitions in Nottingham, he repeated this achievement in the same discipline.
He participated in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal . This time he performed as a member of a four-seat steeringless crew together with partners Andreas Dekker , Stefan Zemmler and Siegfried Britske - was again the best and added another Olympic gold to his track record.
After the Montreal Olympics, Mager remained in the main team of the East German national team and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, in 1977 he won four-wheelless fours at the World Championships in Amsterdam .
In 1978, he visited the world championship in Karapiro , from where he brought the silver dignity award won in the classification of the steering wheelless fours - he lost in the finals only to the crew from the USSR.
At the 1979 World Championships in Bled, he again won the four-wheelless fours, thus becoming the four-time world champion in rowing.
He planned to take part in the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , but shortly before the start of the competition he received a hand injury and was replaced by Jürgen Thiele .
For outstanding sporting achievements he was awarded the Order of Merit to the Fatherland in silver (1972), bronze (1974) and gold (1976) [1] .
Having completed his sports career, he worked as a teacher at the GDR Air Force Officer School in Kamenetz.
Notes
- ↑ Von der Ehrung für die Olympiamannschaft der DDR. Hohe staatliche Auszeichnungen verliehen. Vaterländischer Verdienstorden in Gold (German) . Neues Deutschland . ZEFYS Zeitungsportal der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (10. September 1976). Date of appeal April 10, 2018.
Links
- Wolfgang Mager - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Wolfgang Mager - profile on the FISA website
- Wolfgang Mager (eng.) - Page on the website of the International Olympic Committee