Horst Arndt
Horst Arndt (19 September 1934 – 18 October 2014) was a West German rower who competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1956 Summer Olympics.
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| Born | 19 September 1934 Königsberg, Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 18 October 2014 (aged 80) Taunusstein, Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | RG Wiesbaden-Biebrich 1888 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Arndt was born in Königsberg in 1934, which was then part of Prussia and is now located in Russia and known as Kaliningrad.[1] He was a lifelong member of the RG Wiesbaden-Biebrich 1888, a rowing club in Wiesbaden.[2] At the 1956 European Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia, he won a gold medal in the coxed pair with fellow rower Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck and Rainer Borkowsky as cox.[3] The same team went to the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, where they won the silver medal in this boat class.[1] At the 1957 European Rowing Championships in Duisburg, Germany, they again won a gold medal.[3]
Arndt died in 2014 in Taunusstein, Germany.[1][2]
References
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Horst Arndt". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- Kaiser, Désirée (22 October 2014). "Olympischer Silbermedaillengewinner Horst Arndt verstorben" (in German). Deutscher Ruderverband. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- Heckert, Karlheinz. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Zweier m. Stm.)" (in German). Sport Komplett. Retrieved 4 March 2018.