Peter Berger (rower)

Peter Berger ( born October 16 1949 in Konstanz ) is a retired German rower.

1967 Peter Berger was with Niko Ott German champion in pairs with coxswain. In the pre-Olympic regatta in Mexico City, he sat on the winning coxed four and eight.

At the Olympic Games in 1968, he joined in the coxed four along with Niko Ott, Udo Brecht, Hans- Johann Färber and helmsman Stefan Armbruster. As a fifth of the first semi-final, the team failed to qualify for the final. For small final one came not because two rowers were ill. Niko Ott jumped for the equally ill Roland Boese one in the eighth and was Olympic champion.

In 1969, the foursome was filled by helmsman and Peter Berger as the strongest of the candidates was determined to batsman. In addition to Hans- Johann Färber Gerhard Auer and Alois Bierl sat in the boat. Because of the great strength values ​​of the four rowers they became known as the Bull of four. With helmsman Stefan Voncken the four 1969 European champion and 1970 world champions were. 1971 defended the boat with coxswain Uwe Benter his European title.

After years of unbeaten boat was a big favorite for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. On September 2, the regatta course in Oberschleißheim was sold out, but the crush of visitors without tickets was so great that the fences did not stand up. The Bull quad controlled by Uwe Benter won the expected gold medal safe from the boats from the GDR and Czechoslovakia, it should be the only rowing gold for the Federal Republic in 1972.

After the Olympics, the crew and only Hans- Johann Färber was still at the Olympic Games in 1976, severing it.

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