Identified Athletes
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Stamp GAM 2025 SS (unauthorized issue) OG Montreal 1976 - Harald Jaehrling & Ulrich Friedrich, cox Georg Spohr (on the left side) and medal winning M4+ crews (on the stamp)
The crew in red vests is
the M4+ gold medal winner URS,
below the GER crew (bronze medal)
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Stamp GAM 2025 SS (unauthorized issue) OG Montreal 1976 - M4+ bronze medal winner crew GER
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Stamp GAM 2025 SS (unauthorized issue) OG Montreal 1976 - Peter van Roye & Thomas Strauss (GER), M2- bronze medal winners
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Stamp GBR 2005 Oct. 4th with °British Gold Medal Winners Beijing 2008° - LM2X + M4- on tab
MI 2341 -
Stamp GBR 2009 Mi 2455 II (issued 2006 Oct. 17th) with victorious Cambridge crew 2004 on tab - detail from MS Cambridge University 800th anniversary
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Stamp GBR 2012 Aug. 2nd - OG London - W2- gold medal winners Helen Glover & Heather Stanning (GBR)
MI 3294
SC 3047
SG 3342
YV 3687
The first British women ever to win rowing gold
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Stamp GBR 2012 Aug. 4th - OG London - W2X gold medal for Katherine Grainger & Anna Watkins (GBR)
MI 3299
SC 3052
SG 3347
YV 3694
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Stamp GBR 2012 Aug. 5th - OG London - LW2X gold medal for Katherine Copeland & Sophie Hosking (GBR)
MI 3303
SC 3056
SG 3351
YV 3699
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Stamp GBR 2012 Aug. 5th - OG London - M4- gold medal for Alex Gregory, Tom James, Pete Reed, Andrew Triggs Hodge (GBR)
MI 3302
SC 3055
SG 3350
YV 3700
SG 3350a
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Stamp GBR 2012 Sept. 4th - Paralympic Games London - LTAMix4+ gold medal for P. Relph, N. Riches, J. Roe & D. Smith, cox L. van den Broecke (GBR)
MI 3336
SC 3086
SG 3381
YV 3729
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Stamp GBR-IOM 2004 July 1st - GBR M4- crew after their gold medal win at OG Sydney 2000
MI 1142
SC 1049
YV 1171
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Stamp GBS 2009 March 10th SS - OG Beijing 2008 Chinese gold medal winners - W4X - perforated & imperforated
MI 4053-58
YV 2768-73
MI 4053
YV 2768
MI 4054
YV 2769
MI 4056
YV 2771
MI 4057
YV 2772
TANG Bin, JIN Ziwei, XI Aihua & ZHANG Yangyang (CHN)
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Stamp GBS 2023 (unauthorized issue) - OG Atlanta 1996 - Rob Waddell (NZL)
Rob Waddell won the M1X B-final at
OG Atlanta 1996 (= 7th place),
became M1X World champion in 1998,
defended his title in 1999 and crowned
his career with the M1X gold medal win
at OG Sydney 2000.
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Stamp GBS 2023 (unauthorized issue) - OG Atlanta 1996 - Silken Laumann (CAN)
Silken Laumann gained the W2X bronze medal
at OG Los Angeles 1984 together with her sister
Danielle. She won the W1X gold medal in 1991
and was the gold medal favourite for OG Barcelona
1992 when ten weeks prior to the Games her right
leg was shattered by an accident in the warm-up area
of regatta Essen (GER). A M4- crew had rammed into
her shell. Told that she would never row again and
after five operations she walked with a cane to her
boat and won the W1X bronze medal.
She finished her career with the W1X silver medal at
OG Atlanta 1996.
FISA introduced traffic rules for the warm-up areas
of regattas after the 1992 incident.
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Stamp GBS 2023 (unauthorized issue) - OG Atlanta 1996 - Xeno Mueller (SUI), M1X gold medal winner
M1X Final A OG Atlanta 1996
Gold: Xeno Muller (SUI) 6:44,85
Silver: Derek Porter (CAN) 6:47,45
Bronze: Thomas Lange (GER) 6:47,72
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Stamp GDR 1972 May 16th - Heinz-Juergen Bothe & Joerg Lucke (GDR), M2- gold medal winners OG Mexico 1968
MI 1756
SG E 1474
YV 1443
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Stamp GDR 1980 Apr. 22nd - OG Moscow : Painting "Leipziger Vierer" by Wilfried Falkenthal (1975) depicting - from left to right - Wolfgang Mager, Stefan Semmler, Andeas Decker and stroke Siegtfried Brietzke (GDR), M4- gold medal winners OG Montreal 1976
MI 2505
SC 2099
SG E 2226
YV 2167
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Stamp GEQ (unauthorized) depicting Zag Purchase & Mark Hunter (GBR), LM2X gold medal winners OG Beijing 2008
This LM2X pair also won the silver medal
at OG London 2012
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Stamp GEQ 1976 March 5th - OG Montreal - depicting the GDR M4+ silver medal winner at OG Munich 1972 without cox
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Stamp GEQ 1976 March 5th OG Montreal (perforated & imperforated)
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-.