Karsten Schmeling

Karsten Schmeling ( born January 13, 1962 in Hennigsdorf ) is a former rower from the GDR. In 1988, Schmeling Olympic champion in the four with coxswain.

Schmeling rowed for the SG Dynamo Potsdam coach Bernd Landvoigt. In 1979 he won at the Junior World Championship bronze in the coxless four, 1980, in a two coxless Junior World Champion. In 1981, Schmeling made ​​his debut at the World Championships in adult category. The Potsdamer pairs with coxswain in the cast Schmeling, Jürgen Seyfarth and helmsman Hendrik Reiher won at the Rowing Course near Munich in second place behind the also very young Italian boat Abbagnale, Abbagnale and Di Capua. 1982 was the Potsdamer not beat the three Italians in the World Cup on the Rotsee in Lucerne again and received their second silver medal. 1983 at the World Championships in Duisburg began, the three Potsdamer to aft, again they took second place in this class of boat behind the New Zealanders.

After Schmeling had until then in junior and won medals in adults range in four of the five classes in the belt rowing, his most successful period was to follow in the fifth grade: the four with coxswain. At the World Cup 1985, the Potsdamer four rowed in the cast Bernd calibration root, Bernd Niesecke, Karsten Schmeling, Dietmar Schiller and helmsman Hendrik herons and won the bronze medal. 1986 moved Frank Klawonn for Schiller in the Potsdamer four. In the occupation Karsten Schmeling, Bernd Niesecke, Bernd calibration Root, Frank Klawonn and Hendrik heron boat succeeded in winning the East German championship in 1986 and 1988. The boat won the world title in 1986 in Nottingham and in Copenhagen in 1987. The day after the four-man final in Copenhagen Schmeling went to the eighth and finished eighth behind the U.S. in second place. At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul itself Schmeling focused on Potsdamer four who won by nearly three seconds ahead of the boat from Romania. 1989 Schmeling missed the first time a World Championship medal when he finished fourth with the four.

Karsten Schmeling worked up to the turn in the people's police and then returned in his learned profession as a car mechanic. 1986 and 1988 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold.

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