Günther Perleberg
Günter Pearl Berg ( born March 17, 1935 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) is a former German canoeist. He won the 1960 Olympic gold in Rome and 1964 Tokyo silver.
Pearl Mountain was in the boot of the SC structure Magdeburg in 1957 for the first time DDR champion double kayak and 1958, the one-man kayak. At the Olympic Games in 1960 on the Lake Albano, a 4x500 - meter relay in one kayak was discharged once that was replaced in 1964 by the four kayak. For this season, two canoeists were reported from the Federal Republic and with Günter pearl mountain and Dieter Krause two canoeists from the GDR with Friedhelm Wentzke and Paul Long. The squadron won gold and was the most successful all-German team.
1959, 1961 and 1963 Pearl Mountain became European Champion in the four - kayak, 1963, he won the Yugoslav Jajce the world title. In Jajce is Perleberg set down by the GDR team and fled to Germany, where he settled in Havelse and his learned profession pursued as a civil engineer.
The all-German team for the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 should be set at the canoeists in two races, one in Magdeburg and Duisburg. Here now it came to the problem that pearl mountain was criminally threatened because of his escape from the Republic in the GDR and therefore did not want to compete in Magdeburg. Since this led to serious diplomatic complications, the IOC President Avery Brundage 's compromise proposal to host the qualification with pearl mountain place in Magdeburg in Berlin- Grunau made as a mediator. Berlin- Grunau belonged to East Berlin, but the special status of Berlin as a four- sector city allowed the GDR leadership to save face. Two days before the qualification in Magdeburg, therefore, the first qualification in four kayak was held on 10 September 1964 in Berlin- Grunau, who won the West German foursome with 0.3 seconds ahead. In the second regatta in Duisburg on 19 September, the West German boat won clearly.
At the games in Tokyo so took the West German crew with Holger Zander, Pearl Mountain, Friedhelm Wentzke and Bernhard Schulze Germany in the four - kayak. In the final of the Olympic Games on 22 October the boat from the Soviet Union could not be beat, the German foursome finished second just before the Romanian boat.
For his services to the sport in Lower Saxony in 1988 he was inducted into the Gallery of Honor of the Lower Saxony Sports of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History.