Bahne Rabe also stroked the German M8+ crew that won the gold medal at OG Seoul 1988.

In 2012 Evi Simeoni published the book "Schlagmann" which was inspired by the long illness and death (2001) of this athlete. 

                   Frank Richter, Ike Landvoigt, Detlev Kirchhoff,

                   Dieter Sator, Stefan Forster, Marc Weber,

                   Jochen Lerche, Roland Baar, Kox Peter Thiede

                                            NZL M8+ gold medal winner crew OG Munich 1972

Steve Redgrave & Matthew Pinsent also won the M4- gold medal at the Olympic Games 2000 Sydney.