Werner Lampe (born 30 November 1952) is a retired German

swimmer Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic ...

and Olympic medalist. He is the brother of

Hans Lampe Hans Lampe (born 28 June 1948) is a German former swimmer who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was born in Hannover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. It ...

and father of

Oliver Lampe Oliver Lampe (born 9 April 1974 in Hannover, Niedersachsen) is a former butterfly and freestyle swimmer from Germany, who represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There he swam in the preliminary heats o ...

. He participated at the

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and

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Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal in 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, and a bronze medal in 200 m freestyle in 1972. Lampe shaved off his hair before the 200 m Olympic race in 1972 to reduce the water drag, and then wore a

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at the award ceremony. After retiring from competitions Lampe worked as a swimming coach. In 2005, aged 52, he defended a PhD at the

University of Hannover Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover (german: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität), also known as the University of Hannover, is a public research university located in Hanover, Germany. Founded on 2 May 1831 as Higher Vocational Sc ...

on the role of exercise in diabetics and overweight persons.Ex-Schwimmstar Lampe promoviert mit 52 Jahren
welt.de. 11 March 2005.

References

1952 births Living people Sportspeople from Hanover German male swimmers Olympic swimmers of West Germany Olympic silver medalists for West Germany Swimmers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists in swimming German male freestyle swimmers World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for West Germany Olympic silver medalists in swimming 20th-century German people 21st-century German people {{Germany-swimming-bio-stub