Uwe Benter
Appearance
![]() Benter (cox) at the 1971 European Rowing Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Frankfurt am Main, West Germany | 1 December 1955||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relatives | Lutz Benter (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Hanauer RC Hassia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Uwe Benter (born 1 December 1955) is a German coxswain who competed for West Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1955[1][2] and is the younger brother of Lutz Benter (born 1945), also an Olympic rower.[3] He won a gold medal at the 1971 European Rowing Championships in Copenhagen with the coxed four.[4] At the 1972 Summer Olympics, he was the cox of the West German boat that won the gold medal in the coxed four event.[2] At the 1974 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne, he won bronze with the coxed four.[5]
References
- ^ "Uwe Benter". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
- ^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Uwe Benter". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
- ^ "Lutz Benter". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
- ^ "(M4+) Men's Coxed Four – Final". 22 August 1971. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
- ^ "Rudern – Weltmeisterschaften. Vierer mit Steuermann – Herren" [Rowing – World Championships. Four with coxswain – Men]. Sport-Komplett.de (in German). Archived from the original on 13 January 2014. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
Categories:
- 1955 births
- Living people
- Coxswains (rowing)
- Olympic rowers of West Germany
- Rowers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for West Germany
- Sportspeople from Frankfurt
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- West German male rowers
- World Rowing Championships medalists for West Germany
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- German rowing Olympic medalist stubs