Karl-Heinz Prudöhl

Karl -Heinz Prudöhl ( born December 3, 1944 in Eberhard village near Danzig ) is a former rower from the GDR. 1976 Prudöhl Olympic champion in the eighth.

Life

Prudöhl attended the school from 1950 to the 9th grade. In September 1959, he finished school and started an apprenticeship as a fitter in Pomerania and plumbers. In 1962, he learned from after three years. A year later, in November 1963, decided to Prudöhl for the Navy. There he joined the sports club ASK forward Rostock, where he coached football, boxing and at the end of rowing. From September 1964 to 1966 he took at the community college Rostock to his 10th class. On May 20, 1966 married Karl -Heinz Prudöhl the then 23 -year-old Margot Klippenstein. Shortly after the wedding, in September 1966, the first daughter was born in. In 1968 he started for a year be DHfK external study and after two years studying directly in Leipzig. 1969 saw the second daughter into the world.

After graduating, he was appointed to the Navy to Lieutenant Commander in 1976. He also takes over after the end of his sporting career coach duties in his club. As a coach, he coached the children from the 7th and 8th grades, and young people aged 15-16 years. Prudöhl From 1978 until 1989 as a coach at ASK forward Rostock. He got his coaching license in 1978. 1989 laid the Olympic champion from his uniform, and went in 1990 to the Federal Army to work as a sports teacher. At the same time, he worked for six months a teacher at the sports school in Münster. Since 1992 he has served as Head of the gym in a hotel in Warnemünde.

Sporting career

The rowers from ASK forward Rostock was in 1968 in the coxless pairs do not qualify for the Olympics because his partner fell ill. At the European Championships 1969, he won the bronze medal in the coxless four, together with Werner Klatt, Peter Gorny and Bernd Meerbach. The following year, Klatt and Gorny were world champions in two without, while Karl -Heinz Prudöhl, Jochen Mietzner, Rolf Zimmermann, Bernd Meerbach and helmsman Karl -Heinz Danielowski won the coxed four world championship silver behind the Lake quad. After several line-up changes in the Rostock boats Prudöhl missed again in 1972 the Olympic qualification.

1973 then sat Rostock Prudöhl, Klatt and Danielowski in new composite DDR aft and were European champions. At the World Cup in 1974 aft disappointed with fourth place, but won the 1975 world title with Prudöhl and Klatt. 1976 succeeded Prudöhl in the third attempt to participate in the Olympic Games. In the occupation Bernd Baumgart, Gottfried Döhn, Werner Klatt, Roland Kostulski, Hans -Joachim Lück, Dieter Wendish, Ulrich Karnatz, Karl -Heinz Prudöhl and helmsman Karl -Heinz Danielowski the boat was Olympic Champion with over two seconds ahead of the British boat.

Sporting successes in rowing

In addition Prudöhl won six league titles in the GDR.