Harro Bode

Personal information
Born	20 February 1951 (1951-02-20) (age 74) Sobernheim
Height	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	77 kg (170 lb)
Sport
Sailing career
Club	Segel-Club Sorpesee Iserlohn
Medal record Sailing Representing West Germany Olympic Games 1976 Montreal 470 class

Harro Bode (born 20 February 1951, inSobernheim) is a Germansailor and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in the470 Class withFrank Hübner at the1976 Summer Olympics inMontreal.^[1][2]

Bode studied civil engineering and later became CEO ofRuhrverband [de], a large water utility in the west of Germany. He was appointed honorary professor at theUniversity of Hanover and published many papers about water science and water politics.

• 1976: Award of silver laurel leaf by German Bundespräsident Walter Scheel
• 1987: Karl-Imhoff-Prize of the German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste (DWA) (formerly ATV)
• 2014: IWA-Award for "Outstanding Contribution to Water Management and Science"
• 2015: Golden Badge of Honor of the German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste (DWA)

• Harro Bode atWorld Sailing (archive)
• Harro Bode atOlympics.com
• Harro Bode atOlympedia
• Literature from and about Harro Bode in the catalogue of the German national library
• Ruhrverband

• 1951 births
• Living people
• German male sailors (sport)
• Olympic sailors for West Germany
• Olympic gold medalists for West Germany
• Olympic medalists in sailing
• Sailors at the 1976 Summer Olympics – 470
• Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
• 20th-century German sportsmen

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