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Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck

Personal information
Born	19 July 1936 Tutow, Germany
Died	13 December 2011 (aged 75) Bad Bellingen, Germany
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	88 kg (194 lb)
Sport
Sport	Rowing
Club	Ratzeburger RC
Medal record Representing  Germany Summer Olympics 1960 Rome Eight 1956 Melbourne Coxed pair 1964 Tokyo Eight Representing  West Germany World Rowing Championships 1962 Lucerne Eight European Rowing Championships 1956 Bled Coxed pair 1957 Duisburg Coxed pair 1959 Mâcon Eight 1963 Copenhagen Eight 1964 Amsterdam Eight

Karl-Heinrich Erich Moritz von Groddeck (19 July 1936 – 14 December 2011) was a German rower who won three Olympic medals for the United Team of Germany: a silver in the coxed pairs in 1956 and a gold and a silver in the eights in 1960 and 1964, respectively.^[1][2] He also won one world and five European titles in these two rowing events between 1956 and 1964 for West Germany.^[3] In 1964 he retired from competitions.

Back in 1958, von Groddeck moved from Wiesbaden to Hamburg to work for Axel Springer AG as a journalist in the sports section of a newspaper. For many years he was reporting the history of German rowing.^[4] Later he worked as a freelance journalist.

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