Mourning in German rowing: Andreas Lütkefels, eighth world champion from 1993, died on Monday at the age of 57 after a serious illness.
This emerges from a message from the German flagship on Tuesday.
“He was a win for every team. He never gave up, always fought. He was an extraordinary person with a lot of humor,” said his former two-partner Stefan Scholz.
Together with him, Lütkefels had won bronze in the coxless four at the 1991 World Championships in Vienna, two years later he rowed to gold in Racice/Czech Republic as part of the Germany eight.
In 1988 Lütkefels finished seventh at the Olympic Games in Seoul as a helmsman with the foursome.