Olaf Förster ( German: Olaf Förster ; born , ) is a German rower who played for the German Democratic rowing team in the 1980s. Champion of the Summer Olympic Games in Seoul , two-time world champion, winner of many regattas of national and international importance.
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| Club | SC Einheit Dresden |
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| Growth | 190 cm |
| Weight | 89 kg |
Biography
Olaf Förster was born on November 2, 1962 in Karl-Marx-Stadt , East Germany . As a child, he was seriously engaged in swimming, won medals at the Spartakiada Games of the GDR in 1977 and 1979, but then moved to rowing. He was trained in Dresden at the local sports club Anheit Dresden under the supervision of coach Dieter Gran .
He first declared himself in rowing in 1983, winning a silver medal at the GDR championship in eights. Once in the main team of the East German national team, he took part in the Druzhba-84 regatta in Moscow, where he won a silver medal in the program of wheelless swing fours - he lost only to the crew from the USSR at the finish line.
In 1985, he visited the World Championships in Hazewinkel , from where he brought the bronze dignity award received in the steering wheelless fours.
At the 1986 World Championships in Nottingham, he became a bronze medalist in steering deuces.
In 1987, in the steering wheelless fours he won the world championship in Copenhagen .
Thanks to a series of successful performances, he was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul - as a member of the crew, which also included rowers Ralph Brudel , Roland Schroeder and Thomas Greiner , took first place in the men's quadruple swing-free quadruple program and thereby won the golden Olympic medal. For this outstanding achievement at the end of the season he was awarded the Order of Merit to the Fatherland in Gold [1] .
After the Seoul Olympics, Förster remained in the GDR rowing team and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, in 1989, he performed at the world championship in Bled , where he again won the four-wheelless fours, thus becoming a two-time world champion in rowing.
In 1990, at the World Championships in Tasmania, he added to the track record a bronze award received in the classification of wheelless fours.
Subsequently, he worked as an insurance agent. Married to the famous German rower Kerstin Pilot , has two children [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , 12./13. November 1988, S. 4
- ↑ Rudern - Weltmeisterschaften Zweier mit Steuermann , Vierer ohne Steuermann . sport-komplett.de
Links
- Olaf Förster - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Olaf Förster - profile on the FISA website
- Olaf Förster (English) - page on the website of the International Olympic Committee