Famous Brothers

AC SUI 1996 OG Atlanta - Markus & Michael Gier, LM2X gold medal winners
CC BEL 1964 MILOU BUBBLE GUM Olympics 1964 Tokyo No. 43 - M8+ gold medal winner USA

William Stowe, William Knecht,

Hugh Foley, Stanley Cwikinski,

Emory Clark, Harold Budd,

Thomas & Joseph Amlong,

cox Robert Zimonyi

CC ESP 1964 NESTLE °Los Juegos Olimpicos 1896-1964° cromo No. 231 OG Tokyo - M8+ gold medal winner USA

Gold medal: USA 6:18,23

(Joseph & Thomas Amlong,

Harold Budd, Emory Clark,

Stanley Cwiklinski, Hugh Foley,

William Knecht, William Stowe,

cox Robert Zimonyi)

Silver medal: GER 6:23,29

Bronze medal: CZE 6:25,11

CC ESP 1964 NESTLE °Los Juegos Olimpicos 1896-1964° cromo No. 88 OG Amsterdam 1928 - M2+ gold medal winners Hans & Karl Schoechlin, cox Hans Bourquin (SUI)

A final of two brothers against two brothers

Gold medal: SUI       7:42,6 (Hans & Karl Schoechlin, cox Hans Bourquin)

Silver medal: FRA     7:48,4 (Armand & Edouard Marcelle, cox Henri Préaux)

Bronze medal: BEL   -------   (Léon Flament, Francois de Coninck, cox Georges Anthony)

The time of the Belgian crew is irrelevant as the course allowed only two boats abreast.
CC FIN 1979 Editions Rencontre - Jaques & George Morel (FRA), M2+ silver medal winners OG Tokyo 1964
CC GDR 1983 "Olympioniken der DDR" - M4+ GDR crew, gold medal winner OG Moscow 1980

From left to right: URS (6:19,05 - silver medal), GDR (6:14,51 - gold medal), POL (6:22.52 - bronze medal)
CC GDR 1984 °Olympioniken der DDR° - M2- gold medal winners OG Moscow 1980 - Bernd & Joerg Landvoigt
CC GER (editor and year of issue unknown) No.86 - M4+ crew Ludwigshafener RV winning the gold medal at OG Stockholm 1912

Albert Arnheiter, Otto & Rudolf Fickeisen,

Hermann Wilker, cox Otto Maier
CC ITA 1972 OG Munich PANINI No. 154 - TCH 2+ O. & P. Svojanovsky, cox V. Petricek, silver medal winners

CC ITA 1974 PANINI °Sport vedettes° No. 261 & 262 - GDR M4+, gold medal winner WRC Lucerne 1974


	This GDR M4+ (Walter & Ulrich Diessner, Ruediger Kunze, Andreas Schulz, cox Wolfgang Gross) was world champion in 1974 and won the silver medal at the WRC at Nottingham 1975 and - with Joannes Thomas as cox - at the OG Montreal 1976. Later on the Diessner brothers won Olympic gold at the OG at Moscow 1980 in the M4+ event.

CC ITA 1986 PANINI °Supersport° No. 201 - Guiseppe & Carmine Abbagnale (ITA), M2+ gold medal winnners at OG and WRC 1981-1991 with the exception of 1983 + 1986
CC ITA 1988 PANINI °Supersport° No. 099 - Guiseppe & Carmine Abbagnale, cox Guiseppe Di Capua (ITA), M2+ Olympic champions OG Los Angeles 1984 and OG Seoul 1988, gold medal winners WRC 1981-82, 1985, 1987-91

CC ITA 2016 PANINI "Italia Olympic Team Rio 2016" No. 290 - Carmine & Guiseppe Abbagnale (ITA) with their cox Guiseppe di Capua

CC ITA 2016 PANINI OG Rio de Janeiro No. 290 Carmine Guiseppe Abbagnale with cox Guiseppe di Capua

This crew dominated the M2+ event between 1981

and 1991 by winning the gold medal at two Olympic

Games and seven World Rowing Championships:

WRC Munich 1981, WRC Lucerne 1982, Olympic

Games Los Angeles 1984, WRC Hazewinkel 1985,

WRC Copenhagen 1987, Olympic Games Seoul 1988,

WRC Bled 1989, WRC Tasmania 1990 and WRC Vienna

1991. In the M2+ final of the Olympic Games Barcelona

1992 the Abbagnale brothers lost against the Searle

brothers of Great Britain in an epic battle and won the

silver medal.

Giuseppe Abbagnale was elected president of the Italian

Rowing Federation in 2012.

CC ITA PANINI °Olympia° No. 202 OG Rome 1960 - The M8+ GER (gold medal winner) at the victory ceremony

GER: Hans Lenk, Klaus Bittner, Karl-Heinz Hopp,

Frank & Kraft Schepke, Karl-Heinz von Groddeck,

Walter Schroeder, Manfred Rulffs, cox Willi Padge
CC NED 1964 BRIO °Olympische Spelen° series H Foto No. H 1 - M4+ NED Laga Delft (Jan & Freek & Bob van der Graaf, Lex Mullink, with cox Marius Klumperbeek), bronze medal winner at OG Tokyo 1964
Cinderella GER TOSOLINI'S SPORT-MAGAZIN °Ludwigshafener Vierer°, M4+ gold medal winner OG Stockholm 1912 (four different colours)

Albert Arnheiter (bow), Otto & Rudolf Fickeisen, Hermann Wilker (stroke),

cox Otto Maier (GER) on their way to victory at the Stockholm Games 1912
Crew Card GBR OG Barcelona 1992 - Greg & Jonny Searle, cox Garry Herbert (GBR), M2+ gold medal winners
Illustrated card CRO 2024 with PM Sept. 12th Zagreb - M2- gold medal winners at OG Paris Martin & Valent Sincovic (CRO)
Illustrated card CZE 2006 with PM °Olympsport 1966-2006 Pavel & Oldrich Svojanovsti° and photo of the brothers in a M2+
Illustrated cover CRO 2004 OG Athens with photo of the Skelin brothers (CRO), M2- silver medal winners OG Athens, and corresponding PM HVK °Gusar° Split 90th anniversary

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