Wolfgang Gunkel

Wolfgang Gunkel (15 January 1948 – 20 May 2020)[2] was an East German rower who mostly competed in coxed pairs together with Jörg Lucke. In this event he won the European title in 1971, the Olympic gold medal in 1972, and the world title in 1975.[3] His crew placed fourth at the 1968 Olympics.[4] Gunkel won another world title in the men's eight in 1977.[5] In February 1978, he was given the sports awards Honoured Master of Sports.[6]

Wolfgang Gunkel

Gunkel (right) in 1972

Personal information

Born

15 January 1948
Berlin, Germany

Died

20 May 2020 (aged 72)[1]

Height

192 cm (6 ft 4 in)

Weight

92 kg (203 lb)

Spouse(s)

Renate Boesler

Sport

Rowing

Club

Berliner TSC
SC Berlin-Grünau

Medal record

Men's rowing

Representing East Germany
Olympic Games
	1972 Munich	Coxed pair
World Rowing Championships
	1974 Lucerne	Coxed pair
	1975 Nottingham	Coxed pair
	1977 Amsterdam	Eight
European Rowing Championships
	1971 Copenhagen	Coxed pair
	1973 Moscow	Coxed pair

In the early 1970s, he married fellow international rower Renate Boesler.[7][8]

References

Deutscher Ruderverband (29 May 2020). "News: Nachruf auf Wolfgang Gunkel". rudern.de. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
"Wolfgang Gunkel". Olympedia. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
Rudern – Weltmeisterschaften Zweier mit Steuermann – Herren, Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Zweier m. Stm.). sports-reference.com
Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Wolfgang Gunkel". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
Wolfgang GUNKEL at FISA WorldRowing.com
"Viele Berliner unter den Ausgezeichneten" [Many Berliners among the award winners]. Berliner Zeitung (in German). 34 (32). 7 February 1978. p. 11. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
"Ruderer verabschiedet" [Rowers farewelled]. Berliner Zeitung (in German). 29 (139). 21 May 1973. p. 7. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
Mollenschott, Cornelia (1 July 1975). "Einige Fragen an" [A few questions for]. Neues Deutschland (in German). 30 (154). p. 5. Retrieved 23 April 2018.

External links

Wolfgang Gunkel at Olympedia
Wolfgang Gunkel at the International Olympic Committee
Wolfgang Gunkel at the Olympic Channel

Olympic rowing champions – Men's coxed pair

1900: François Brandt, Roelof Klein (cox. Hermanus Brockmann in the heat; unknown in the final)
1920: Ercole Olgeni, Giovanni Scatturin (cox. Guido De Felip)
1924: Édouard Candeveau, Alfred Felber (cox. Émile Lachapelle)
1928: Hans Schöchlin, Karl Schöchlin (cox. Hans Bourquin)
1932: Joseph Schauers, Charles Kieffer (cox. Edward Jennings)
1936: Gerhard Gustmann, Herbert Adamski (cox. Dieter Arend)
1948: Finn Pedersen, Tage Henriksen (cox. Carl-Ebbe Andersen)
1952: Raymond Salles, Gaston Mercier (cox. Bernard Malivoire)
1956: Arthur Ayrault, Conn Findlay (cox. Kurt Seiffert)
1960: Bernhard Knubel, Heinz Renneberg (cox. Klaus Zerta)
1964: Edward Ferry, Conn Findlay (cox. Kent Mitchell)
1968: Primo Baran, Renzo Sambo (cox. Bruno Cipolla)
1972: Wolfgang Gunkel, Jörg Lucke (cox. Klaus-Dieter Neubert)
1976: Harald Jährling, Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich (cox. Georg Spohr)
1980: Harald Jährling, Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich (cox. Georg Spohr)
1984: Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale (cox. Giuseppe Di Capua)
1988: Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale (cox. Giuseppe Di Capua)
1992: Greg Searle, Jonny Searle (cox. Garry Herbert)

World champions – Men's coxed pair

1962: (Wolfgang Neuß, Klaus-Günter Jordan, cox Frank Steinhäuser)
1966: (Hadriaan van Nes, Jan van de Graaff, cox Poul de Haan)
1970: (Ștefan Tudor, Petre Ceapura, cox Ladislau Lovrenschi)
1974: (Vladimir Eshinov, Nikolay Ivanov, cox Aleksandr Lukyanov)
1975: (Jörg Lucke, Wolfgang Gunkel, cox Bernd Fritsch)
1977: (Todor Mrankov, Dimitar Yanakiev, cox Stefan Stoykov)
1978: (Jürgen Pfeiffer, Gert Uebeler, cox Olaf Beyer)
1979: (Jürgen Pfeiffer, Gert Uebeler, cox Georg Spohr)
1981: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
1982: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
1983: (Ullrich Dießner, Thomas Greiner, cox. Andreas Gregor)
1985: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
1986: (Andy Holmes, Steve Redgrave, cox. Patrick Sweeney)
1987: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
1989: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
1990: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
1991: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
1993: (Jonny Searle, Greg Searle, cox Garry Herbert)
1994: (Igor Boraska, Tihomir Franković, cox Milan Ražov)
1995: (Luca Sartori, Giuliano de Stabile, cox Antonio Cirillo)
1996: (Yannick Schulte, Luc Prevot, cox Christophe Tellier)
1997: (Scott Fentress, Jordan Irving, cox Nicholas Anderson)
1998: (Nick Green, James Tomkins, cox Brett Hayman)
1999: (James Neil, Phil Henry, cox Nicholas Anderson)
2000: (Matt Guerrieri, Kurt Borcherding, cox Nicholas Anderson)
2001: (James Cracknell, Matthew Pinsent, cox Neil Chugani)
2002: (Lars Krisch, Andreas Werner, cox Claus Müller-Gattermann)
2003: (Matt Rich, Dan Beery, cox Andrew Kelly)
2004: (Mattia Trombetta, Mario Palmisano, cox Luigi Longobardi)
2005: (Hardy Cubasch, Sam Conrad, cox Marc Douez)
2006: (Nikola Stojić, Jovan Popović, cox Ivan Ninković)
2007: (Dawid Paczes, Lukasz Kardas, cox Daniel Trojanowski)
2008: (Gabriel Bergen, James Dunaway, cox Mark Laidlaw)
2009: (Troy Kepper, Henrik Rummel, cox Marcus McElhenney)
2010: (Chris Morgan, Dominic Grimm, cox David Webster)
2011: (Vincenzo Capelli, Pierpaolo Frattini, cox Niccolò Fanchi)
2012: (Stanislau Shcharbachenia, Aliaksandr Kazubouski, cox Piotr Piatrynich)
2013: (Luca Parlato, Vincenzo Abbagnale, cox Enrico D'Aniello)
2014: (Eric Murray, Hamish Bond, cox Caleb Shepherd)
2015: (Nathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell, Matthew Tarrant, cox Henry Fieldman)
2016: (Oliver Cook, Callum McBrierty, cox Henry Fieldman)
2017: (Adrián Juhász, Béla Simon, cox Andrea Vanda Kolláth)

World champions – Men's eight

1962: (Meyer, Plagemann, Aeffke, Behrens, Wallbrecht, von Groddeck, Ingo Kliefoth, Bernd Kruse, cox Ahrens)
1966: (Meyer, Schreyer, Schwan, Luhn, Hertel, Henning, Ulbricht, Kuhn, cox Niehusen)
1970: (Borchmann, Jobst, Zander, Gust, Martens, Ahrendt, Foppke, Puls, cox Zahn)
1974: (Shealy, Stevenson, Cashin, Norelius, Everett, Vespoli, Mickelson, Brown, cox Weinberg)
1975: (Arndt, Döhn, Wendisch, Ulrich, Klatt, Kostulski, Karnatz, Prudöhl, cox Ludwig)
1977: (Sredzki, Lindner, Gottschalt, Kons, Lück, Frieberg, Karnatz, Gunkel, cox Jahncke)
1978: (Schumann, Karnatz, Sredzki, Ebert, Ulrich, Jährling, Dühring, Höing, cox Kaiser)
1979: (Schiller, Friedrich, Wenzel, Ulrich, Höing, Karnatz, Krauß, Rodewald, cox Ludwig)
1981: (Gudauskas, Solomakhin, Krilov, Diduk, Narushaitis, Narmontas, Pinskus, Maystrenka, cox Nizhegorodov)
1982: (O'Connell, Stanley, Stevenson, Keys, White-Parsons, White, Brook, Rodger, cox Hay)
1983: (Stanley, Stevenson, Rodger, White-Parsons, White, Mabbott, Keys, Atherfold, cox Hay)
1985: (Komarov, Diduk, Pinskus, But, Omelyanovich, Hurkovskiy, Voloshin, Vasilyev, cox Dmytrenko)
1986: (Galloway (b), Batten, Cooper, McKay, Doyle, Tomkins, Popa, Evans, cox Caterson)
1987: (Teti, Smith, Patton, Still, Nordell, McLaughlin, Burden, Pescatore, cox Bauer)
1989: (Puttlitz, Keßlau, Steffes-Mies, Balster, Dietrich, Mauerwerk, Wessling, Baar, cox Klein)
1990: (Baar (b), Balster, Dietrich, Korte, Richter, Steffes-Mies, Ungemach, Weyrauch, cox Klein)
1991: (Steffes-Mies, Balster, Fischer, Streppelhoff, Hecht, Klapheck, Wessling, Baar, cox Klein)
1993: (Baar, Hoeltzenbein, Lütkefels, Richter, Scholz, Steffes-Mies, Streppelhoff, von Ettingshausen, cox Thiede)
1994: (Brown, Hall, Honebein, Kaehler, Klepacki, Koven, McKibbon, Smith, cox Segaloff)
1995: (Baar, Forster, Kirchhoff, Landvoigt, Lerche, Richter, Sator, Weber, cox Thiede)
1997: (Ahrens, Bea, Henry, Kaehler, Miller, Richter, Wherley, Cummins, cox Cipollone)
1998: (Ahrens, Collins, Kaehler, Klepacki, Miller, Volpenhein, Welsh, Wherley, cox Cipollone)
1999: (Volpenhein (b), Kaehler, Collins, Welsh, Wherley, Klepacki, Miller, Ahrens, cox Cipollone)
2001: (Măstăcan (b), Corbeanu, Nemțoc, Florariu, Cornea, Bănică, Pîrvan, Măstăcan, cox Gheorghe)
2002: (Swick (b), Light, Rutledge, Hamilton, Stankevicius, Hoskins, Kreek, Powell, cox Price)
2003: (Stankevicius, Light, Rutledge, Hamilton, Calder, Hoskins, Kreek, Powell, cox Price)
2005: (Daniels, Deakin, Coppola, Beery, Inman, Volpenhein, Hoopman, McElhenney, cox Blomquist)
2006: (Dießner, Schulte, Koltzk, Stüer, Tebrügge, Siemes, Engelmann, Heidicker, cox Thiede)
2007: (Light (b), Rutledge, Byrnes, Wetzel, Howard, Seiterle, Kreek, Hamilton, cox Price)
2009: (Käufer, Hauffe, Mennigen, Wilke, Schmidt, Adamski, Seifert, Schmidt, cox Sauer)
2010: (Hauffe, Reinelt, Wilke, Mennigen, Schmidt, Müller, Seifert, Schmidt, cox Sauer)
2011: (Hauffe, Kuffner, Johannesen, Reinelt, Schmidt, Müller, Mennigen, Wilke, cox Sauer)
2013: (Ritchie, Ransley, Gregory, Reed, Sbihi, Triggs Hodge, Nash, Satch, cox Hill)
2014: (Reilly-O'Donnell, Tarrant, Satch, Gotrel, Reed, Bennett, Ransley, Louloudis, cox Hill)
2015: (Gotrel, Louloudis, Reed, Bennett, Sbihi, Gregory, Nash, Satch, cox Hill)
2017: (Weißenfeld, Wimberger, Planer, Johannesen, Schneider, Jakschik, Schmidt, Ocik, cox Sauer)
2018: (Weißenfeld, Wimberger, Planer, Johannesen, Schneider, Jakschik, Schmidt, Ocik, cox Sauer)
2019: (Weißenfeld, Follert, Reinhardt, Johannesen, Schneider, Jakschik, Schmidt, Ocik, cox Sauer)

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