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Germany At The 1996 Summer Olympics
Germany competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. 465 competitors, 278 men and 187 women, took part in 234 events in 26 sports. Medalists Gold * Lars Riedel — Athletics, Men's Discus Throw * Astrid Kumbernuss — Athletics, Women's Shot Put * Ilke Wyludda — Athletics, Women's Discus Throw * Kay Bluhm and Torsten Gutsche — Canoeing, Men's K2 500 m Kayak Pairs * Detlef Hofmann, Thomas Reineck, Olaf Winter and Mark Zabel — Canoeing, Men's K4 1000 m Kayak Fours * Andreas Dittmer and Gunar Kirchbach — Canoeing, Men's C2 1000 m Canadian Pairs * Oliver Fix — Canoeing, Men's K1 Kayak Slalom Singles * Birgit Fischer, Manuela Mucke, Anett Schuck and Ramona Portwich — Canoeing, Women's K4 500 m Kayak Fours * Jens Fiedler — Cycling, Men's 1000 m Sprint (Scratch) * Ulrich Kirchhoff — Equestrian, Jumping Individual * Ludger Beerbaum, Ulrich Kirchhoff, Lars Nieberg, and Franke Sloothaak — Eque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Olympic Sports Confederation
The German Olympic Sports Confederation (german: Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund or DOSB) was founded on 20 May 2006 by a merger of the ''Deutscher Sportbund'' (DSB), and the ''Nationales Olympisches Komitee für Deutschland'' (NOK) which dates back to 1895, the year it was founded and recognized as NOC by the IOC. Seated in Frankfurt am Main, it represents 89,000 clubs and 27,000,000 members, about a third of the population of Germany. Presidential Board DOSB-President is Alfons Hörmann. Also members of the presidential board are: *Stephan Abel (Vice President, economy and finances) * Ole Bischof (Vice President, competitive sports) *Walter Schneeloch (Vice President, popular sports and development of sports) *Gudrun Doll-Tepper (Vice President, education and olympic breeding) *Petra Tzschoppe (Vice President, women and equality) *Ingo-Rolf Weiss (chairman of Deutsche Sportjugend) *Christian Schreiber (representative of the athletes) *Claudia Bokel (German IOC Member) *Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Fix
Oliver Fix (born 21 June 1973 in Augsburg) is a German slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1990 to 1996. He won a gold medal in the K1 event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Fix also won gold medals in the K1 and K1 team events at the 1995 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Nottingham. His wife Gilda Montenegro competed for Costa Rica in two Summer Olympics in the women's slalom K1 event. Her best finish was 26th in Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ... in 1992. World Cup individual podiums References DatabaseOlympics.com profile* *Wallechinsky, David and Jamie Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Women's Kayak Slalom Singles". In ''The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition''. London: Aurum Press Limited. pp. 49 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Theodorescu
Monica Theodorescu (born 2 March 1963) is a German retired equestrian and dressage rider. Biography Born in Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia, Monica Theodorescu is the daughter of the German, former Romanian, dressage rider George Theodorescu and the German show jumping rider Inge Theodorescu (born as Inge Fellgiebel). Inge Fellgiebel was the daughter of Hans Fellgiebel, the brother of Erich Fellgiebel, a " July 20th" conspirator. Monica was successful for 30 years as a rider in the international world of dressage. Her last team medal came at the European Championships at Windsor, England, in 2009. In 2012, German Olympic Equestrian Committee appointed Theodorescu the new German dressage team trainer. References External links Profile of Monica Theodorescuat Horsemagazine.com Monica Theodorescuat Olympic.org Monica Theodorescu''International Federation for Equestrian Sports The International Federation for Equestrian Sports (, FEI) is the international governing bod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Schaudt
Martin Schaudt (born 7 December 1958 in Balingen, Baden-Württemberg) is a German equestrian and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in ''team dressage'' at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ... with the team from Germany."1996 Summer Olympics – Atlanta, United States – Equestrian" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on 21 September 2008) He also received a gold medal with the German team in 2004. References External links *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Balkenhol
Klaus Balkenhol (born 6 December 1939 in Velen) is a German equestrian and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in team dressage at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona with the team from Germany. Balkenhol is the author of several dressage books. He is an avid member of Xenophen, and like Philippe Karl petitions against the use of rollkur. Balkenhol's earlier riding career consisted of being a mounted police Mounted police are police who patrol on horseback or camelback. Their day-to-day function is typically picturesque or ceremonial, but they are also employed in crowd control because of their mobile mass and height advantage and increasingly in t ...man. He was also the coach of the U.S. Olympic team."1992 Summer Olympics – Barcelona, Spain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabell Werth
Isabell Werth (born 21 July 1969 in Issum) is a German equestrian and world champion in dressage who competed in the Olympics six times (1992, 1996, 2000, 2008, 2016, 2020) winning twelve medals, seven of them gold. She holds the record for the most Olympic medals won by any equestrian athlete. Career Werth rode Gigolo, owned by Uwe Schulten-Baumer, her coach from 1986 until 2001. On Gigolo, she won all her championships between 1992 and 2000, save for the 1999 European Championships in Arnheim, where she rode Anthony FRH. In 2006, she started riding Warum Nicht FRH at the international level and with him won the 2007 World Cup in Las Vegas. Warum Nicht retired in 2012. Werth competed at the Olympic Games with Satchmo, who subsequently retired in November 2011. In 2010, Werth started riding El Santo at the international level until the horse was transferred in 2016 to Spanish rider José Antonio Garcia Mena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franke Sloothaak
Franke Sloothaak (born 2 February 1958 in Heerenveen, the Netherlands) is a German show jumping champion, Olympic champion from 1988 and 1996. Olympic Record Sloothaak competed for West Germany at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where he received a bronze medal in ''team jumping'' with Farmer, and at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where the team received a gold medal. He participated for Germany at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he won a gold medal in Team Jumping, together with Lars Nieberg, Ulrich Kirchhoff and Ludger Beerbaum."1996 Summer Olympics – Atlanta, United States – Equestrian" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on September 5, 2008) Sloothaak still holds the world record for the indoor |
Lars Nieberg
Lars Nieberg (born 24 July 1963 in Wittingen, Lower Saxony) is a German equestrian. He participated in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics in show jumping competition. Olympic record Nigberg participated at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he won a gold medal in Team Jumping, together with Franke Sloothaak, Ulrich Kirchhoff and Ludger Beerbaum."1996 Summer Olympics – Atlanta, United States – Equestrian" ''databaseOlympics.com'', retrieved 5 September 2008 Nieberg again won a gold medal in Team Jumping at the in |
Ludger Beerbaum
Ludger Beerbaum (, ; born 26 August 1963 in Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia) is an internationally successful German equestrian who competes in show jumping and has been ranked the No. 1 Show Jumper in the world by the FEI on multiple occasions. He is also a four-time Olympic Gold medalist team and individual. Early life and competitive career Beerbaum was born in Detmold, Germany. In school, he took Business Studies, but eventually gave it up for a career in show jumping. Beerbaum began riding on a Highland Pony at the age of 8. He had a very successful career as a young Rider which continued into his adulthood. His most notable accomplishments include winning 4 Olympic Golds (his first at age 25) and numerous European and World Championship medals. On Sunday 21 September 2008, at the Samsung Super League Final in Barcelona, Beerbaum was a member of the winning German Nations Cup team. He was awarded Leading Rider of the 2008 Super League, along with 50,000 CHF ( $46,000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrich Kirchhoff
Ulrich Kirchhoff (born 9 August 1967 in Lohne) is a German (until 2013) and Ukrainian show jumping rider, Olympic champion from 1996. Olympic Record Kirchhoff participated at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he won a gold medal on the stallion ''Jus De Pommes'' in the Individual Jumping."1996 Summer Olympics – Atlanta, United States – Equestrian" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on September 5, 2008) At the same Olympics he also received a gold medal in Team jumping, together with , |
Jens Fiedler (cyclist)
Jens Fiedler (born 15 February 1970) is a German triple Olympic champion and multiple world champion track cyclist. He retired from competitive cycling in early 2005. Major results ;1992 : 1st Olympic Games, Sprint : 1st National Championship, Sprint ;1993 : 1st National Championship, Sprint ;1994 : 1st National Championship, Sprint ;1995 : 1st National Championship, Sprint : 1st World Championship, Team sprint (with Michael Hübner, Jan van Eijden) ;1996 : 1st Olympic Games, Sprint : 1st National Championship, Sprint ;1997 : 2nd World Championship, Sprint ;1998 : 1st National Championship, Sprint : 1st World Championship, Keirin : 2nd World Championship, Sprint ;1999 : 1st National Championship, Team sprint (with Jan van Eijden, Eyk Pokorny) : 1st National Championship, Sprint : 1st World Championship, Keirin ;2000 : 1st National Championship, Team sprint (with Jan van Eijden, Carsten Bergemann) : 3rd Olympic Games, Sprint : 3rd Olympic Games, Keirin : 2nd World Championsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramona Portwich
Ramona Portwich (born 5 January 1967 in Rostock) is an East German-German sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won five medals with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1998, 1996) and two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1996). Portwich also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, 1991, 1995; K-2 5000 m: 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993; K-4 500 m: 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ..., 1995), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1995), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1993). References DatabaseOlympics.com profile* * External links * * 1967 births Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
