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
Karl Adam died one year after this book was published. He introduced
intervall training and weightlifing into competitive rowing and taught
his crews to change the leverage of oars and sculls according to the
types of boats and the wind conditions. His traing methods resulted
in a domination of (West)German rowing from 1959-1968.
Egbert Hirschfelder, Joachim Werner, Berhard Britting & Peter Neusel (stroke),
cox Juergen Oehlke. Egbert Hirschfeler also won the M8+ Olympic gold medal
at the Mexico Games 1968.
Gold medal: GER 7:00,44
Silver medal: ITA 7:02,84
Bronze medal: NED 7:06,46
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