Norbert Keßlau

Norbert Kesslau ( born July 13, 1962 in Dortmund ) is a retired German rower. Kesslau part of the Ruhr- four, one of the world's best in the 1980s boats in the boat class coxless four.

The rowers from the rowing club Hansa 1898 (Dortmund ) began in 1978 with the rowing, he rowed already in the youth field with his team mate Jörg Puttlitz in a boat. 1982 was Kesslau spare rowers at the World Rowing Championships. 1983 moved Puttlitz and Kesslau to the Witten brothers Guido and Volker Grabow in the boat. The new composite Ruhr- four not only won the title at the German Championships, but also won at the World Rowing Championships in Duisburg. The four rowers defended the German championship in the years 1984 to 1986. During the Olympic Games in 1984 the foursome finished with one and a half seconds behind the bronze medalist Danish fourth place. 1985 repeated the four rowers the World Cup win in 1983, the year after they were runner-up behind the boat from the United States. 1987 Kesslau paused, but returned as 1988. The Ruhr- four defeat at the German championships 1988 rowing community with Eckhardt Schultz, Ansgar Wessling, Matthias and Thomas Mellinghaus Möllenkamp. These four rowers were at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul for Germany eight, with whom she won gold. In the Ruhr- four Kesslau moved before the Olympic Games on the position of the batsman, the boat took third place in Seoul. Kesslau and Puttlitz in 1989 along with the Würzburgern Mark masonry and Frank Dietrich once again German Champion in the four. 1985, 1986 and 1989 and won Kesslau Puttlitz also at the German Championships in eighth.