Klaus Zerta
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![]() Klaus Zerta at the 1960 Olympics | |||||||||||
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Born | 25 November 1946 Gelsenkirchen, Germany | (age 75)||||||||||
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||
Weight | 48 kg (106 lb) | ||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||
Club | RV Gelsenkirchen | ||||||||||
Medal record
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Klaus Zerta (born 25 November 1946) is a retired German rowing coxswain. He was part of the West German team that won gold medals at the 1960 Summer Olympics in the coxed pair event competing for the United Team of Germany. Zerta was the youngest medalist at the 1960 Games.[1] He is the youngest confirmed male gold medalist in Olympics. He was 13 years and 283 days when he won the gold in the men's coxed pair in 1960.
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- 1946 births
- Living people
- Coxswains (rowing)
- Olympic rowers of the United Team of Germany
- Rowers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United Team of Germany
- Sportspeople from Gelsenkirchen
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- West German male rowers
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- German rowing Olympic medalist stubs