Olaf Förster

Olaf Förster ( born November 2, 1962 in Karl- Marx-Stadt ) is a retired rower from the GDR. 1988 Ranger Olympic champion in the coxless four.

Rangers began with the swimmers and won medals at the 1977 and 1979 Spartakiade. Only after he moved to the rowers at SC Einheit Dresden, where he trained under Dieter Grahn. In 1983, he finished with the eighth second place in the East German championship. In 1985, he won his first World Championship medal, when he got together with Thomas Bänsch, Thomas Greiner and Hans Sennewald bronze in the coxless four. Also in 1986 he erruderte the bronze medal; this time he was sitting with Thomas Greiner and Udo Kühn in two with coxswain. 1987 changed Greiner and Rangers back into the quad without and won with Ralf and Jens Brudel Luedecke gold at the World Championships in Copenhagen. At the 1988 Olympic Games Förster, Brudel, Greiner and Roland Schröder won before the boats from the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany. In the 1989 World Series was back Jens Roland Schröder Luedecke place in the boat; Förster, Brudel and Greiner won for the third time in a row at the season climax. 1990, the four rowers erruderten the bronze medal at the last World Cup appearance of the GDR rowing team.

Förster married in September 1987 Kerstin Pieloth who received 1988 gold in the quadruple sculls at the Olympic Games; they have two children. Olaf Förster worked after his career at an insurance company. In 1988 he received for his Olympic victory in the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold Seoul.