Hannes Peckolt

Hannes Peckolt ( born November 18, 1982 in Ludwigshafen, Germany) is a German sailors in the 49er dinghy.

The currently living in Kiel medical student had given his first sailing experience in a rented catamaran in Corsica, then he was an optimist. Peckolt since 2000 bowman in the 49er dinghy, together with his brother and helmsman Jan- Peter Peckolt. Previously, the two siblings had sailed in a 420 dinghy and had become at the World Championship 1999 Thirteenth, then changed but because of the higher claim in the 49er class.

Since then, they have won several successes, including they were third at the 2005 European Championships and second in the year 2007. Nearly missed it in 2004 to qualify for the Olympic Games in Athens, instead of them took the duo Marcus Baur and Max Groy there part of Germany. For one year ( February 2007-February 2008 ) Peckolts the leader of the ISAF World Ranking were, in 2008, they could then qualify for the Olympics. In the same year they reached sixth place in the World Cup, after they had already placed there in 2006 on the fourth.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing, the two brothers reached the bronze medal in their discipline. Behind the Danes Jonas Warrer and Martin Ibsen and the Spaniards Iker Martinez and Xabier Fernandez them managed to climb to third place. First, it was unclear whether the Danes are disqualified because they, after their mast was broken, the boat of the Croats had borrowed, but twenty hours after the final decision of the international jury was in favor of the Danes, who were allowed to remain Olympic champion.

Peckolt is a member of the yacht club Langenargen and the sailing community Waldsee.