André Steiner

André Steiner ( born February 8, 1970 in Gera ) is a retired German rower, the 1996 Olympic champion.

Steiner won in 1987 at the Junior World Championships title in the double sculls. In 1989 he was awarded the championship title of the GDR in the quadruple sculls. 1991 Steiner won, his time starting for the Potsdam rowing community, along with Oliver Green in the double sculls bronze at the World Rowing Championships. But both missed the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

In Barcelona, ​​the German sculls in the cast André Willms, Stephan Volkert, Andreas Hajek and Michael Steinbach had won the gold medal. André Steiner, meanwhile antretend for the Berlin Rowing Club, replaced Steinbach 1993. The sculls won at the World Championships in 1993 in Račice (Czech Republic) and Steiner won his first major title. 1994 moved Torsten Weishaupt Willms into the boat, in the occupation of Weishaupt, Volkert, Hajek and Steiner took the four disappointing third place at the World Championships in Indianapolis (USA) behind the boats from Italy and Ukraine. All three boats were for the first time under the then world record time of 5:40 min. 1995 defended the Italians their world title before the German foursome. Steiner and Volkert, however, were not in the quadruple sculls, but erruderten at the World Championships, the silver medal in the double sculls. For the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, the rowers of the boat world champion returned in 1993 in the quadruple sculls back. Willms, Volkert, Hajek and Steiner won gold in front of the boats from the USA and from Australia. While Wilms, Volkert and Hajek continued their career, left the then student of dentistry Steiner after the Olympic victory of the national team.