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Place of Birth: Berlin
About Hartmut Wenzel
- Hartmut Wenzel (born 23 February 1947) is a German coxswain.
- From East Germany, he defected his country during his rowing career in 1970 or 1971, later winning Olympic bronze for West Germany. Wenzel was born in 1947 in Berlin.
- He was a rowing cox for TSC Berlin and in 1966, he won his first national coxing the eight.
- He then went to the 1966 World Rowing Championships in Bled with the eight where they won a bronze medal.
- For its success at the World Championships, team members were awarded the title and medal Honoured Master of Sports.After a break from the sport, he came second at the East German national championships in 1969 with the eight from TSC Berlin, beaten for first place by ASK Vorwärts Rostock.
- From this team, a coxed four was formed for the 1969 European Rowing Championships in Klagenfurt, and they won the silver medal behind West Germany.
- The same team came second at the 1970 East German national championships, beaten by rowers from ASK Vorwärts Rostock.Some time in 1970/71, Wenzel defected and joined RK Am Baldeneysee Essen.
- In 1971, his first season at the new club, he became national champion with the coxed four.
- For the 1972 rowing season, he changed to the eight and the team won silver at the national championships.
- In 1973, the rowing eight from Essen became German champion.
- In 1974, he was back coxing the four for Essen, and they became German champion.
- For the 1975 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham, he was the cox for four rowers from different clubs, and this team won a bronze medal after the Soviet Union and East Germany.
- Most of Wenzel's team members changed for the 1976 season, but the new composition once again won the national championships.
- He also coxed an eight at the national championships, and that boat came second.
- West Germany qualified a coxed four for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and further changes to the rowing team composition were made.
- That team won the bronze medal in the coxed four event.At the 1977 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam, Wenzel coxed the eight that won the bronze medal.
- In 1978, he coxed an eight that came second at the national championships.
- The exact same team went to the 1978 World Rowing Championships in Cambridge, New Zealand where they won silver, beaten by East Germany.
- At the national championships in 1979, Wenzel came second with the coxed four, and third with the eight.
- The same eight went to the 1979 World Rowing Championships in Bled where they came ninth.
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