Identified Athletes G-H-I

       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).

Annekatrin Thiele (bow), Carina Baer, Julia Richter,

Britta Oppelt (stroke)

 Katherine Grainger is the most

successful British female rower:

OG Sydney 2000             W4X silver medal

OG Athens 2004              W2- silver medal

OG Beijing 2008              W4X silver medal

OG London 2012             W2X gold medal

OG Rio de Janeiro 2016   W2X silver medal

WRC Milan 2003              W2- gold medal

WRC Gifu 2005                W4X gold medal

WRC Eton 2006               W4X gold medal

WRC Munich 2007            W4X gold medal

WRC Karapiro 2010          W2X gold medal

WRC Bled 2011                W2X gold medal

Andrew Triggs Hodge and Peter Reed (GBR) won

three Olympic gold medals: 2008 Beijing (M4-),

2012 London (M4-) and 2016 Rio de Janeiro (M8+).

They were also members of British gold medal

winner crews: 2005 WRC Gifu (M4-), 2006 WRC

Eton (M4-) and 2013 WRC Chungju (M8+). At the 

WRC 2014 Amsterdam A. Triggs Hodge won the M4-

whereas P. Reed was a member of the victorious

British M8+. He repeated this success at WRC

Aiguebelette 2015. 

       MI SS 289

 M8+ final OG Barcelona 1992

Gold medal CAN       5:29,53

Silver medal ROU     5:29,67

Bronze medal GER   5:31,00

   Frank Richter, Thorsten Streppelhoff,

   Detlef Kirchhoff, Armin Eichholz,

   Bahne Rabe, Hans Sennewald,

   Ansgar Wessling, Roland Baar (stroke),

   cox Manfred Klein (GER)

  OG London 2012 W2- gold medal winners

   Helen Glover & Heather Stanning (GBR)

A. Partridge & C. Smith: M8+ OG 2008 (silver) + OG 2012 (bronze)

J. Orme: M8+ World Cup Bled 2010

M. Bateman: M2X WRC 2010 (silver)

P. Reed & A. T. Hodge: M4- OG 2008 (gold) + OG 2012 (gold),

                                  M8+ WRC 2013 (gold) + OG 2016 (gold)

M. Langridge: M8+ OG 2008 (silver) + OG  2012 (bronze) +

                               OG Rio 2016 (gold)

S. Williams: M4- OG 2004 (gold) + OG 2008 (gold)

P. Hill (cox): M8+ OG 2012 (bronze) + WRC 2013-2015 (gold)

                     + OG 2016 (gold)

LM2X gold medal OG Beijing 2008

LM2X gold medal WRC Karapiro 2010

LM2X gold medal WRC Bled 2011

LM2X silver medal OG London 2012

Zac Purchase also won the LM1X

    gold medal at WRC Eton 2006

      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.