Identified Athletes G-H-I

The describtion on the back of this card is wrong in various aspects:

1. Karl Adam was never a German Rowing Champion. He was a coach.

2. His first big win was the M8+ gold medal at the ERC Macon 1959,

followed by the Olympic M8+ gold medal win at Rome 1960 (ending

the uninterrupted succession of eight United States Olympic M8+

victories 1920-1956).

3. The Ratzeburg Rowing Academy was founded in 1965 by the

German Rowing Federation. Karl Adam was its director for the

first ten years.

Gold medal: GDR (Bernd Baumgart, Gottfried Duhn, Werner Klatt, Hans Joachim Luck,

                              Dieter Wendisch, Roland Kostulski, Ulrich Karnatz, Karl-Heinz Prudohl,

                              cox Karl-Heinz Danielowski) 5:58,29

Silver medal: GBR                                              6:00,82

Bronze medal: NZL                                             6:03,51

The inscription below the "stamp" on the left reads "Rowing Klaus Joachim and

Drayfke Kreppelin"