Wolfgang Hottenrott

Wolfgang Hottenrott ( born June 13, 1940 in Hannover ) is a retired German rower. He won the 1968 Olympic gold medal in the eights.

Career

Hottenrott had his first success when he took up with Michael Swan in 1964 in the coxless pairs. The two won the German championship and were at the helm European Championships Second. At the Olympic Games in Tokyo, she won the bronze medal behind the boats from Canada and the Netherlands. In 1965, the two German masters again. Together with Detlef Damboldt and Lutz Ulbricht they were also champions in the coxless four and occupied at the European Championships in second place. 1966 changed Ulbricht and swan in the German Roller, Hottenrott was with the newly occupied four without, although German champion, but finished at the World Championships in Bled only fifth place. 1967 Hottenrott German Champion in the four without and in the eighth. With the aft he was also European champion.

1968 sat Hottenrott only in the supervised by Karl Adam Germany eighth. Horst Meyer, Dirk Schreyer, Rüdiger Henning, Wolfgang Hottenrott, Lutz Ulbricht, Egbert Hirschfelder, Jörg Siebert, Roland Boese and helmsman Gunther Tiersch were common German masters. At the Olympic Games had Roland Boese be replaced due to illness by Niko Ott and this occupation then also won gold against the Australians. The Germany was eighth in 1968 voted Team of the Year.

Wolfgang Hottenrott rowed mostly for the club German Rowing Club from 1884 in Hanover, two without, he started with Michael Swan for the Karlsruhe Rhine club Alemannia. After his career, the graduate Master of plumbing worked in his father's business, which he later took over.

For his services to the sport in Lower Saxony, he was inducted into the Honor Gallery of Lower Saxony Sports of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History.