Bernd Niesecke

Bernd Niesecke ( born October 30, 1958 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) is a former rower from the GDR. 1988 Niesecke Olympic champion in the four with coxswain.

Biography

Niesecke rowed for the SG Dynamo Potsdam coach Bernd Landvoigt. He finished 1977 with two helmsman third place in the GDR championships. In 1981 he formed together with Dietmar Schiller, Jörg Friedrich, Harald yearling and helmsman Klaus -Dieter Ludwig as rowing community from Potsdam and Magdeburg a coxed four, which should replace the Olympic champion from Dresden to Ullrich Dießner. The new crew won at the World Championships in Munich right away the title. 1982 moved the world champions until Schiller in the GDR were eighth and with this boat Vice World Champion. 1983 joined a purely Potsdamer crew with Bernd calibration root, Niesecke, Friedrich Schiller and Ludwig as helmsman four in the World Cup and reached the second place behind the boat from New Zealand. At the World Cup 1985, the Potsdamer four rowed in the cast calibration root, Niesecke, Karsten Schmeling, Schiller and helmsman Hendrik herons and won the bronze medal.

1986 moved Frank Klawonn for Schiller in the Potsdamer four. In the occupation Karsten Schmeling, Bernd Niesecke, Bernd calibration Root, Frank Klawonn and Hendrik heron boat succeeded in winning the East German championship in 1986 and 1988. The boat won the world title in 1986 in Nottingham and in Copenhagen in 1987. At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 the quartet won by nearly three seconds ahead of the boat from Romania.

1986 and 1988 Niesecke was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold.

Bernd Niesecke worked until the turn at the People's Police and was adopted in Potsdam in the newly formed police service in 1990.