Thomas Greiner ( German: Thomas Greiner ; born , ) is a German rower who played for the German Democratic rowing team in the 1980s. Champion of the Summer Olympic Games in Seoul , four-time world champion, winner of many regattas of national and international importance.
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| Club | SC Einheit Dresden |
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| Height | 193 cm |
| The weight | 90 kg |
Biography
Thomas Greiner was born on May 3, 1963 in the city of Dresden , East Germany . He trained at the local sports club Anheit Dresden.
He first made his name in rowing in 1980, winning a bronze medal in the doubles fours at the junior world championship in Belgium. A year later, at similar competitions in Bulgaria, he won first place in doubles.
He achieved his first serious success at the adult international level in the 1982 season, when he joined the East German national team and played at the World Championships in Lucerne , where he won the standings of the oar steering fours.
In 1983, at the world championship in Duisburg, he defeated all rivals in steering deuces.
He was considered as a candidate for participation in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles , but East Germany, along with several other countries of the socialist camp, boycotted these competitions for political reasons. Instead, he performed at the alternative regatta Druzhba-84 in Moscow, where he won a silver medal in the program of wheelless swing fours - he lost at the finish only to the crew from the USSR.
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 honor of the country at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul - as part of the crew, which also included rowers Ralph Brudel , Roland Schroeder and Olaf Förster , took first place in the men's quadruple-free swing quadruple program and thereby 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 Gold [1] .
After the Seoul Olympics, Greiner 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 the four-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.
His highest achievements in rowing in 1991 were marked by the Thomas Keller Medal [2] .
Subsequently, he worked as a tax consultant, participated in rowing competitions as a judge. Married, has two children.
Notes
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , 12./13. November 1988, S. 4
- ↑ Keller Medal Award Archived February 23, 2014 on Wayback Machine . worldrowing.com
Links
- Thomas Greiner - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Thomas Greiner - profile on the FISA website
- Thomas Greiner (English) - page on the website of the International Olympic Committee