Walter Schröder

Walter Schroeder ( born December 29, 1932 in Kampow ) is a retired German rower. He won Olympic gold in Rome in 1960.

Career

Walter Schröder launched for the Ratzeburg RC. In 1957, he was together with Manfred Rulffs German champion coxless pairs. 1958 sat Rulffs and Schröder in coach Karl Adam newly formed eighth and won in this boat class at the German Championships. 1959 Adam made ​​an eight rowers from his Ratzeburg RC and ATV Ditmarsia Kiel. This rowing community became German champion in the cast Klaus Bittner, Karl -Heinz Hopp, Hans Lenk, Manfred Rulffs, Frank Schepke, power Schepke, Walter Schroeder and Karl- Heinrich von GRODDECK with coxswain Willi Padge. Shortly afterwards, the eight also won at the European Championships in 1959. The media response to this victory of Germany rowing eight was enormous, the boat was elected to the Team of the Year.

1960 won the eighth at the German Championships and qualified for the All-German Olympic excretion for the Olympics. At the Olympic regattas on Lake Albano won the eighth in his lead and won the final in a time of 5:57,18 minutes before the boat from Canada. Again, the nine athletes were honored as Team of the Year.

After his sporting career Schröder proposed a academic career. After years as a rudder teacher and lecturer at the University of Hamburg, he became a professor in the Department of Sport, where he led the work area ' exercise and training '. He took, inter alia, as colleagues Arnd Krüger added. He has authored publications on the methodology and the history in rowing. Together with his former comrades rudder, the philosophy professor Hans Lenk, Schröder was 1982 works by Karl Adam under the caption Small fonts for rowing training.

Works

• Beginner lessons in rowing in youth according methodology. Hofmann, Schorndorf 1978, ISBN 3-7780-9241-3
• Rowing. Training, technique, tactics. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1978, ISBN 3-499-17010-8