Peter Niehusen

Peter Niehusen ( born July 15, 1951 in Lübeck ) is a retired German rower. In 1966 he became world champion in the eighth.

After the Olympic silver medal for Germany Aft 1964 Niehusen enlisted as a successor of Thomas Ahrens on the position of the helmsman. 1965 and 1966 contributed Niehusen the aft of the German championship. 1965 in Duisburg won the eight at the European Championships in 1966 won the boat in Bled the World Cup. In 1967, Gunther Tiersch instead of Niehusen into the boat.

Unlike other young control men in rowing, whose career ends if they are too heavy for the position of helmsman, Niehusen returned as an adult in the world-class, this time as an active rower. The Boating Party by the rowing community Lübeck sat in 1973 at the European Championships in Moscow in Germany aft as the boat finished fifth. 1974 moved Niehusen in the four with coxswain; in the occupation of Hans- Johann Färber, Ralph Kubail, Peter -Michael Kolbe, Peter Niehusen and helmsman Uwe Benter took the boat at the World Championships in Lucerne third place behind the boats from the GDR and the Soviet Union. The following year, Dieter Knief occurred in Nottingham instead Kolbe and Hartmut Wenzel instead of Benter, again won the World Cup Bronze Boot, it won the Soviet boat in front of the boat from the GDR. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, the four in the cast Hans- Johann Färber, Ralph Kubail, Siegfried Fricke, Peter Niehusen and Hartmut Wenzel started. Behind the boats from the Soviet Union and East Germany won the bronze medal at the boat the third highlight of the season in a row.