Horst Arndt
German rower (1934–2014) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Horst Arndt (19 September 1934 – 18 October 2014) was a West German rower who competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1956 Summer Olympics.
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Born | 19 September 1934 Königsberg, Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 18 October 2014(2014-10-18) (aged 80) Taunusstein, Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | RG Wiesbaden-Biebrich 1888 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Arndt was born in Königsberg in 1934, which was then part of Prussia and is now located in Russia and known as Kaliningrad.[1] He was a lifelong member of the RG Wiesbaden-Biebrich 1888, a rowing club in Wiesbaden.[2] At the 1956 European Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia, he won a gold medal in the coxed pair with fellow rower Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck and Rainer Borkowsky as cox.[3] The same team went to the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, where they won the silver medal in this boat class.[1] At the 1957 European Rowing Championships in Duisburg, Germany, they again won a gold medal.[3]
Arndt died in 2014 in Taunusstein, Germany.[1][2]