Detlef Kirchhoff
Detlef Kirchhoff ( born May 21, 1967 in Halberstadt ) is a former rower who competed for East Germany until 1990. With four Olympic appearances, he won three medals. 1990, 1995 and 1998, he won at the World Rowing Championships.
Career
Detlef Kirchhoff rowed initially for the SG Dynamo Potsdam. 1984 and 1985 he won at the Junior World Championships in the coxed four. In 1986 he first took part in the World Championships in the senior category and labeled with the DDR - eight fifth place. 1987 Kirchhoff made with Mario dispute and helmsman René Rensch a twin with coxswain. After a fourth place finish at the 1987 World Championships in 1988, the boat won the silver medal behind the Italian defending champions Carmine and Giuseppe Abbagnale with her mate Giuseppe Di Capua at the Olympic Games in Seoul. He was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver for this success. After Kirchhoff had assigned the two at the World Championships in 1989 to fourth place, he moved in 1990 in the coxed four. In the starring Mario Grüssel, Stefan Schulz, Detlef Kirchhoff, Bernd calibration root and helmsman Hendrik Reiher the four won at the World Championships in Tasmania. The foursome was next to the two men without the only boat that could win a world title in the last race of the East German rowing team.
1991 had become the Potsdamer rowing community from the SG Dynamo Potsdam. Kirchhoff was the first year after the fall of only the German B-team on. In 1992, he was able to recommend together with the Rostock Hans Senne forest for the compiled by Ralf Meyer Holt Germany eighth. Senne forest and Kirchhoff were the first coming from the GDR rowers in that boat, Kirchhoff was with his height of 2.08 meters and the longest in the eighth. At the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992, the boat won the bronze medal. 1993 were Kirchhoff and Sennewald a two coxless and won silver at the World Championships behind Matthew Pinsent and Steven Redgrave. 1995 Kirchhoff sat again in Germany aft and was in Tampere world champion. At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta aft Germany won the silver medal with Kirchhoff.
After the eight who finished fifth at the World Championships in 1997, Kirchhoff moved back into the coxless pairs and won in 1998 along with Robert Sens at the World Championships in Cologne. According to a sixth place finish at the World Rowing Championships 1999 Sens and Kirchhoff occupied only ninth place at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. Kirchhoff, who started for the Berliner RC meanwhile, ended his career after the Olympics in Sydney.