Willi Eichhorn
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Born | 23 August 1908 | |||||||||||||
Died | 25 May 1994 | (aged 85)|||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||
Club | Mannheimer RC | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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Willi Eichhorn (23 August 1908 – 25 May 1994) was a German rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
In 1936 he won the gold medal with his partner Hugo Strauß in the coxless pairs competition for men, He was only 27 at the time. This was also his only time competing in the Olympics.[1] Germany also went on to win the most gold medals that year.[2]
References[]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 25 March 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "A Map of Olympic Medals - Interactive Graphic". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
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Categories:
- 1908 births
- 1994 deaths
- Olympic rowers of Germany
- Rowers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Germany
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- German male rowers
- Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- German rowing Olympic medalist stubs