Peter Niehusen

Personal information
Born	(1951-07-15)15 July 1951 (age 74) Lübeck
Height	191 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	90 kg (198 lb)
Sport
Sport	Rowing
Medal record Men'srowing Representing West Germany Olympic Games 1976 Montreal Coxed four World Rowing Championships 1966 Bled Eight 1974 Lucerne Coxed four 1975 Nottingham Coxed four European Rowing Championships 1965 Duisburg Eight

Peter Niehusen (born 15 July 1951) is the only sportsman to have won international medals as both acoxswain and arower. He won two gold medals and three bronze medals at the European and World Championships and the1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.

Niehusen was born inLübeck, Germany, in 1951.^[1] He coxed the eight from Ratzeburg toEuropean gold in 1965,^[2] and the first "Deutschland Achter" in1966 to world gold. He had to leave his coxing seat because he could not maintain his weight at the required 50 kg any longer.

In 1973 he returned to the German eight; this time as a rower. This team came in fifth place at the1973 European Rowing Championships inMoscow and terminated Niehusen's ambitions for the eight.From 1974 to 1976 he and his partnerRalph Kubail in the coxless pair joinedHans-Johann Färber (gold Olympics 1972, in the so-called Bulls-Four) in thecoxed four with a different fourth men each year. In 1974 it wasPeter-Michael Kolbe, who would become famous as a single sculler. In 1975, it wasDieter Knief, and in 1976 it wasSiegfried Fricke.^[3][4] This boat won three consecutive bronze medals, only being beaten by East Germany and the Soviet Union.

Niehusen was team captain of the German rowing team.

Niehusen worked in the cigarette industry for almost 20 years as a member of the management board ofReemtsma Cigarettenfabriken. Later on he worked and lived inHenley-on-Thames, UK, for three years.^[5] Nowadays Niehusen lives inHamburg as a consultant in sports marketing.

• Peter NIEHUSEN atWorld Rowing

• 1951 births
• Living people
• Olympic rowers for West Germany
• Rowers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
• Olympic bronze medalists for West Germany
• Olympic medalists in rowing
• West German male rowers
• World Rowing Championships medalists for West Germany
• Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
• Coxswains (rowing)
• Sportspeople from Lübeck
• Rowers from Schleswig-Holstein
• European Rowing Championships medalists

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