Identified Athletes D-E-F

Mads Rasmussen (bow) & Rasmus Quist (stroke) -

portrait of R. Quist in foreground - won the LM2X

final at OG London against the reigning Olympic

champions Mark Hunter & Zac Purchase (GBR)

with a margin of 0.6 sec)

       MI SS A 84

          Bernd & Joerg Landvoigt (GDR)

                Pertti Karppinen (FIN)

The photos which were used for the design of

the souvenir sheet show the M2- crew Bernd &

Joerg Landvoigt (GDR), the single sculler Pertti

Karppinen (FIN), and the M4- crew J. Thiele,

A. Decker, S. Semmler & S. Brietzke (GDR). 

They were taken from the book "Spiele der 

XXII. Olympiade Moskau 1980", published by

Sportverlag Berlin (GDR) 1980 (pages 102,

97 and book cover).

M2- gold medal winners FRA Rolland & Andrieux -

They both also won the M2- gold medal at the

WRC Aiguebelette 1997 - J.-C. Rolland became

FISA president in 2014

      The Olympic rowing regatta 1980 took place

      at Moscow, not at Tallinn where the sailing

      contests were held

       MI SS 155 A

       MI SS 155 B

 Photo from book °Montreal 1976° by H.

Rosendahl, published by Corvus Verlag 1976, page 97

The decisive moment in the M1X final at OG Montreal 1976:

The favourite P. M. Kolbe (GER) in the foreground

is no longer able to defend his leading position against

P. Karppinen (FIN) and has to rest content with the silver medal.