Wolfram Faust
Wolfram Faust ( born March 10, 1964 in Wuppertal ) is a former German canoeist. Today he works as an organizer of dragon boat events.
Faust was in the 1980s one of the most successful West German athletes in the disciplines of canoe canoe racing and was subsequently also in the dragon boat sport successful. He started up in 1990 in the canoe racing for the canoe sports community Wuppertal and briefly moved in 1991 to the SC Neubrandenburg. His home club was the club for canoeing Wuppertal, where he was supervised by Hans -Martin Roese.
In dragon boat sport he first went for the co-founded by him drag Attack team, later the Electoral Palatinate - Dragons from Mannheim, into the race.
He founded an event agency in 1996 today drachenboot -events and supervised throughout Europe Events.
Canoe Racing
At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he finished in a two - Canadians with Ralf Wienand about 500 m to 6 m and over 1000 the 4th Place. The Canoe Racing World Championships 1986 in Montreal, he reached with his brother Hartmut over 1000m 3rd place. Common attended the brothers at the Summer Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988, where she came in 5th place about 1000 m. About 500 m both not reach the final. After Hartmut had declared his career end, Faust qualified in 1989 together with his team mate Thomas Faulstich for the World Championships in Plovdiv. After the German Canoe Association refused to nominate his home coach Hans -Martin Roese as usual until then as a supervisor, Faust said from his World Cup participation. 1990, however, he failed to qualify for the World Championships in Poznan, where they occupied a ninth place over 1000m after the re-entry of his brother Hartmut together with this.
Wolfram Faust was 26x German champion in canoe racing, among other things, he finished 1987-91 with the team KSG Wuppertal each one 1st place in the eight - Canadians.
Dragon Boat
1991 ended fist his career in canoe racing and was (later drag- Attack Team) and was soon successful together with Ulrich Eicke one of Hauptinitatoren the founding of the Dragon Boat Division in Wuppertal VfK dragon boat sport. Overall, he was five times world champion dragon boat. Fascinated by the team sport, in which up to 50 people sit in a boat and paddle - driven by a drummer and coxswain - sparked the two -time Olympian tungsten own as one of the first in Europe, the Dragon Boat euphoria. Founded in 1996, an event agency today drachenboot -events.com and supervised throughout Europe corporate events ( team building, company outing, incentive, etc.) Public Events ( to town festivals, seaworthy, harbor festivals, etc. ) and equips International Dragon Boat Europe and world championships with boats and complete accessories.