Peter-Michael Kolbe

Peter -Michael Kolbe ( born August 2, 1953 in Hamburg ) is a retired German rower.

Kolbe was one of the world's best one - rower and won five world titles. , 1975, 1978, 1981, 1983 and 1986, after his first World Cup he was in 1975 elected German Sportsman of the Year. His career, however, is influenced by the fact that he only was second at the Olympic Games in 1976, 1984 and 1988. 1976 in Montreal and 1984 in Los Angeles, he lost in each case the final against the Finns Pertti Karppinen and 1988 in Seoul against the East German rowers Thomas Lange. Nevertheless, three silver medals at three Olympic Games an impressive track record, also Kolbe in 1980 hampered by the boycott of the Games of Moscow from engaging in the battle for the Olympic gold medal in 1984 upon the decision of the FISA to cut him rolling boom - One, he with the 1981 and 1983 world champion had become, was not allowed to use. After his playing days Kolbe was until 1994 Director of Sport in the German Rowing Federation. Until 2007 he lived with his family in Oslo. After many years of marriage to the Norwegian Aina Moberg Kolbe returned to his native Germany and lives there today with his partner.

According to him, the so-called " Kolbe syringe " has been designated a non-prohibited manipulation of the athletes. Background was a " vitamin injection ", which received Kolbe before the finals of the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. Since it despite a sovereign leadership until shortly before the finish but ultimately lost the race as the reigning world champion and thus overwhelming favorites against the then little-known Pertti Karppinen, they looked for causes of this decline in the administered syringe.