Horst Meyer

Horst Meyer (born 20 June 1941 in Hamburg -Harburg ) is a retired German rower, who was Olympic champion in 1968 with the aft ..

Meyer belonged since 1962, inter alia, as a hitter for the crew of the rowing eight from Ratzeburg Rowing Club (RRC ); 1962-1968 was coached by Karl Adam Aft seven consecutive time German champion. At the first World Rowing Championships 1962 in Lucerne the boat from the RRC became world champion. 1963 and 1964 the boat was European champion. The European Championships in 1963, 1964, 1965 and 1967 in eight had World Championship level since there is always the USA and Australia and / or New Zealand were in competition. At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 Ratzeburger roller was defeated, the aft from the United States and won silver.

Then the aft Germany was newly appointed and joined international championships as a rudder Community, in the rowers from Lübeck, and later from Berlin and Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Hanover, Bingen and Wetzlar rowed together with the remaining Ratzeburgern. Also in this rowing community remained Horst Meyer batsman and in 1965 and 1967 European champion and 1966 world champion in Bled. 1965 won the aft and the Grand Challenge of the Royal Henley Regatta against the Olympic champion Vesper Boat Club in the USA. The highlight of the career Meyers was then the victory at the Olympic Games in 1968.

In addition to his German Championship successes in the aft Meyer won in 1963 the United States Championship in the aft and 1967 a German Championship titles in the coxless four. Meyer was awarded the silver laurel leaf of the Federal Republic of Germany, a member of the teams of the year in 1962 and 1968 Sportsman of the Year 1966, the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and his successes with the awarded annually since 1972 German Youth Cup of the German Rowing Federation by his hometown club The Hamburg and Germania honored rowing Club from 1836.

After his athletic career, the graduate and polytechnic engineering and a PhD in economics in 1980 led a management consulting company. In addition, he was over thirty years at the expert committee of the German Sports Aid Foundation and was repeatedly elected as a personal member of the National Olympic Committee. 2008 Siegfried Meyer Kaidel defeated in the election of the Chairman of the German Rowing Federation. For his services to the sport in Lower Saxony, he was inducted into the Honor Gallery of Lower Saxony Sports of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History.