Stamp BDI 2022 (unauthorized issue) - Steve Redgrave (GBR)
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Steve Redgrave won five Olympic gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games:
Los Angeles 1984 (M4+), Seoul 1988 (M2-), Barcelona 1992 (M2-), Atlanta 1996 (M2-) and Sydney 2000 (M4-).
He also won nine gold medals at World Rowing Championships: WRC Nottingham 1986 (M2+), WRC Copenhagen
1987 (M2-), WRC Vienna 1991 (M2-), WRC Radice 1993 (M2-), WRC Indianapolis 1994 (M2-), WRC Tampere
1995 (M2-), WRC Aiguebelette 1997 (M4-), WRC Cologne 1998 (M4-) and WRC St. Catharines 1999 (M4-).
He competed at Henley Royal Regatta for more than two decades winning 17 times in five different events,
among them the Diamond Sculls.
Stamp BDI 2022 (unauthorized issue) - Vyacheslav Ivanov (URS)
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V. Ivanov won three gold medals at Olympic Games: M1X at OG Melbourne 1956 M1X at OG Rome 1960 M1X at OG Tokyo 1964 He was the M1X World Champion at WRC Lucerne 1962 and M1X European Champion at ERC Bled 1956, ERC Macon 1959, ERC Prague 1961 and ERC Amsterdam 1964. Furthermore he won the Diamond Sculls at Henley 1957 and 1958.
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Stamp BDI 2023 SS - unauthorized issue - "Rowing at the 1976 Summer Olympics"
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Lower right corner: J. Dreifke & K. Koeppelien (GDR), M2X gold medal winners OG Montreal 1976 and WRC Munich 1981
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Stamp BDI 2023 SS (unauthorized issue) OG Montreal 1976
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M1X result OG Montreal 1976 1. FIN (Pertti Karppinen) 2. GER (Peter-Michael Kolbe) 3. GDR (Joachim Dreifke)
Kolbe had led Karppinen by eight seconds at half way but was caught in the final spurt. |
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M1X gold medal winner P. Karppinen (FIN)
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M1X gold medal winner P. Karppinen (FIN)
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M1X silver medal winner P.-M. Kolbe (GER)
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M1X silver medal winner P.-M. Kolbe (GER)
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Stamp BEL 1987 Sept. 5th - Belgian Rowing Federation centenary
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MI 2311 SC 1276 SG 2918 YV 2259
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- Stamp BEL 1987 Sept. 6th (FDC) Belgian Rowing Federation centenary on cover (PU)
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- Stamp BEL 2010 Oct. 18th (personalized) - Ghent Koninklijke Roeivereniging Club 140th anniversary 1871-2011
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