Eric Johannesen
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Born | 16 July 1988 Oberhausen,West Germany | (age36)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Eric Johannesen(born 16 July 1988) is a German former representativerower.He is a dual Olympian, an Olympic gold medallist and was a 2011 world champion.
He was in the crew that won the gold medal in the men's eight competition at the2012 Summer OlympicsinLondon.At the2016 Summer OlympicsinRio de Janeiro,he rowed in the Germanmen's eightwhich won the silver medal.[1]
Personal
[edit]Johannesen was born inOberhausen,West Germany. His club rowing was from the Bergedorf Rowing Club till 2017 and then the Favorite Hammonia Rowing Club. His younger brotherTorben Johannesenis also an Olympic and world champion rower.
Johannesen along with the other eight 2016 Olympic silver medal rowers was awarded theSilbernes Lorbeerblatt(Silver Laurel Leaf), Germany's highest sports award, for the achievement.[2]It was Reinelt's second such award having been similarly recognised for his 2012 Olympic gold.[3]
International rowing career
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References
[edit]- ^"Rio 2016".Rio2016.com.Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.Archived fromthe originalon 1 September 2016.Retrieved5 September2016.
- ^"Verleihung des Silbernen Lorbeerblattes".Office of thePresident of Germany(in German). 1 November 2016.Retrieved11 February2019.
- ^"2012 Eight awarded Silver Laurel Leaf".Archived fromthe originalon 5 December 2021.Retrieved6 July2021.
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[edit]- 1988 births
- Living people
- Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic rowers for Germany
- Olympic gold medalists for Germany
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- German male rowers
- Olympic silver medalists for Germany
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- World Rowing Championships medalists for Germany
- European Rowing Championships medalists
- Recipients of the Silver Laurel Leaf
- Sportspeople from Oberhausen
- Rowers from North Rhine-Westphalia
- German rowing biography stubs