Identified Athletes - GDR

Lower right corner: J. Dreifke & K. Koeppelien (GDR),

M2X gold medal winners OG Montreal 1976 and WRC

Munich 1981

       MI 643 A

       SC 287

       YV 288

       MI 643 B

Error in design:

The stamp shows the drawing of a M2X whereas Brietzke & Mager won the M2- competition!

       MI 1756

       SG E 1474

       YV 1443

       MI 2505

       SC 2099

       SG E 2226

       YV 2167

        MI 784

        SC 76-32

        YV 84-A

The stamp shows the GDR M4+ crew (D. Zander, R. Gust, E. Martens, R. Jobst, cox K.-D. Ludwig) who won the silver medal at OG Munich 1972. The designer eliminated the cox (only a small part of his head is visible on the original photo) changing the M4+ into a M4-.

       MI 889

       SC B533

       YV 738

       MI SS 12

       SG MS 1781

       YV BF 11

Dietrich Zander (stroke), Rolf Jobst,

Reinhard Gust, Eckhard Martens (bow),

cox Klaus-Dieter Ludwig

On the photo only a small part of

the coxwain's head is visible behind the

bowman - on the stamp the drawing shows

no cox at all giving the impression

of a M4- crew

Angelika Noack (GDR)

W4+ gold medal WRC Lucerne 1974

W2- gold medal WRC Nottingham 1975

W2- silver medal  OG Montreal 1976

W2- gold medal WRC Amsterdam 1977

W4+ gold medal WRC Lake Karapiro 1978

W4+ gold medal OG Moscow 1980

Coach since 1980 (SC DHfK Leipzig)

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The souvenir sheet contains (in small print) the names of famous athletes who competed for SC DHfK Leipzig, among them 37 scullers and rowers (including three female coxes) who won gold medals at Olympic Games,World Rowing Championships and European Championships:

Brigitte Amm (W8+ 1966)

Marita Berndt (W4+ 1967)

Irmgard Brendental (W8+ 1964)

Siegfried Brietzke (M2- 1972, M4- 1974+1975+1976+1977+1979+1980)

Cornelia Buegel (W8+ 1977, W2- 1978+1979) = Cornelia Klier (W2- 1980)

Sabine Daehne (W4+ 1974, W2- 1975+1977) - Coach 1978-1996 (SC DHfK Leipzig)

Andreas Decker (M8+ 1973, M4- 1974+1975+1976+1977+1979+1980)

Jutta Dietrich (W8+ 1964)

Gerlinde Doberschuetz (W4+ 1988)

Jens Doberschuetz (M4+ 1979, M8+ 1980)

Florian Eidam (JM4X 2009+2010)

Cox Karla Frister (W4X+ 1960)

Silvia Froehlich (W4+ 1980, W2- 1982+1983)

Gisela Heisse (W4X+ 1960)

Cox Christa Karnath (W4+ 1974)

Barbara Koch (W4+ 1967)

Cornelia Linse (W2X 1979, W1X 1985)

Wolfgang Mager (M2- 1972, M4- 1974+1975+1976+1977+1979)

Barbara Mueller (W8+ 1964)

Christiane Muenzberg (W8+ 1964)

Inge Mund (W8+ 1966)

Kristina Mundt (W4X 1985+1988+1992+1994)

Kersten Neisser (W8+ 1977+1980, W4+ 1978)

Angelika Noack (W4+ 1974+1978+1980, W2- 1975+1977)

Romy Saalfeld (W4+ 1980)

Marita Sandig (W8+ 1977+1980, W4+ 1978, W2- 1982+1983)

Renate Schlenzig (W4+ 1967+1974, W8+ 1968+1969+1970)

Christina Schmidt (W4+ 1967)

Stefan Semmler (M8+ 1973, M4- 1974+1975+1976+1977+1979+1980)

Sylvia Schwabe (W2X 1985+1986)

Ute Skorupski (W4+ 1978)

Ute Stange (W8+ 1988) = Ute Wagner (W4- 1989, W8+ 1994)

Ute Steindorf (W8+ 1977, W2- 1978+1979+1980)

Annekatrin Thiele (W2X 2010 ERC, W4X 2013 ERC+WRC) - coach Angelika Noack

Juergen Thiele (M4- 1980)

Herta Weissig (W4X+ 1960)

Cox Kirsten Wenzel (W4+ 1978+1980)

Heidi Westphal (W2X 1979)

       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).