- Norman Bröckl
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Medal record Men's canoe sprint Olympic Games Bronze 2008 Beijing K-4 1000 m World Championships Gold 2005 Zagreb K-4 1000 m Gold 2007 Duisburg K-4 1000 m Gold 2011 Szeged K-4 1000 m Silver 2005 Zagreb K-4 200 m Silver 2009 Dartmouth K-1 4 x 200 m European Championships Silver 2011 Belgrade K-4 1000 m Norman Bröckl (born August 22, 1986 in Berlin) is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 2003. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event on his 22nd birthday at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Bröckl enjoyed great success as a junior. At the 2003 Junior World Championships in Komatsu, Japan he won a K-2 1000 m gold medal (partnering Lieven Spur) and the K-1 500 m silver medal, behind Portugal's Emanuel Silva. In 2004 he dominated the Junior European Championships, winning three gold medals (K-1 500 m, K-1 1000 m and K-4 500 m).
He was promoted to Germany's senior K-4 crew in 2005. His senior debut, at the European championships in Poznań, went badly - Bröckl has admitted that he "froze" - and the German crew finished outside the medals in both the 500 m and 1000 m races. They did take the 200 m bronze medal on the last day of the championships, but the German coaches decided that Bröckl was not yet ready for the responsibility of leading the crew from the bow-seat in the (more tactical) longer distance races. He therefore switched seats with the more experienced Lutz Altepost for the 1000 m races at the world championships in Zagreb, Croatia. This time there were no nerves and Germany won the K-4 1000 m gold medal. In the 200 m final, with Bröckl leading, they picked up a silver medal.
2006 proved a disappointing season for Bröckl and his teammates. They took the 1000 m bronze medal at the European Championships in Račice, Czech Republic in July. However at the World Championships in Szeged, Hungary, the German K4 "Flagschiff" finished outside the medals in all three distances. It was the first time since 1977 that no men's German boat reached the podium. Bröckl and his teammates redeemed themselves the following year at Duisburg with a gold in the K-4 1000 m event. He would also win a silver in the K-1 4 x 200 m event at the 2009 championships.
Bröckl is a member of the Pro Sport Berlin club.
References
- Canoe09.ca profile
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936-2007.
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.
- Official website
- Sports-reference.com profile
1938: Germany (Ernst Kube, Heini Brüggemann, Ernst Strathmann & Heine Strathmann) · 1948: Sweden (Hans Berglund, Lennart Klingström, Gunnar Åkerlund & Hans Wetterström · 1950: Sweden (Einar Pihl, Hans Eriksson, Lars Pettersson & Berndt Häppling) · 1954: Hungary (Imre Vagyóczki, László Kovács, László Nagy & Zoltán Szigeti) · 1958: West Germany (Michel Scheuer, Georg Lietz, Gustav Schmidt & Theodor Kleine) · 1963: East Germany (Günther Perleberg, Dieter Krause, Siegfried Rossberg & Wolfgang Lange) · 1966: Romania (Atanase Sciotnic, Mihai Ţurcaş, Haralambie Ivanov & Anton Calenic) · 1970: Soviet Union (Yuri Filatov, Valeri Didenko, Yuri Stetsenko & Volodymyr Morozov) · 1971: Soviet Union (Yuri Filatov, Volodymyr Mozorov, Yuri Stetsenko & Valeri Didenko) · 1973: Hungary (József Deme, János Rátkai, Csongor Vargha & Csaba Giczi) · 1974: East Germany (Herbert Laabs, Ulrich Hellige, Jürgen Lehnert & Bernd Duvigneau) · 1975: Spain (Herminio Menéndez, José María Esteban, José Ramón López & Luis Gregorio Ramos) · 1977: Poland (Ryszard Oborski, Daniel Wełna, Grzegorz Kołtan & Henryk Budzicz) · 1978: East Germany (Bernd Olbricht, Bernd Duvigneau, Rüdiger Helm & Harald Marg) · 1979: East Germany (Bernd Duvigneau, Rüdiger Helm, Harald Marg & Bernd Olbricht) · 1981: East Germany (Rüdiger Helm, Frank-Peter Bischof, Peter Hempel & Harald Marg) · 1982: Sweden (Per-Inge Bengtsson, Lars-Erik Moberg, Thomas Ohlsson & Bengt Andersson) · 1983: Romania (Ionel Constantin, Nicolae Fedosel, Ionel Letcae & Angelin Velea) · 1985: Sweden (Per-Inge Bengtsson, Lars-Erik Moberg, Kalle Sundqvist & Bengt Andersson) · 1986: Hungary (Ferenc Csipes, Zsolt Gyulay, László Fidel & Zoltán Kovács) · 1987: Hungary (Zsolt Gyulay, Ferenc Csipes, László Fidel & Zoltán Kovács) · 1989: Hungary (Attila Ábrahám, Ferenc Csipes, László Fidel & Zsolt Gyulay) · 1990: Hungary (Attila Ábrahám, Ferenc Csipes, László Fidel & Zsolt Gyulay) · 1991: Hungary (Attila Ábrahám, Ferenc Csipes, László Fidel & Zsolt Gyulay) · 1993: Germany (Thomas Reineck, Oliver Kegel, André Wohllebe & Mario Von Appen) · 1994: Russia (Viktor Denisov, Anatoli Tishchenko, Aleksandr Ivanik & Oleg Gorobiy) · 1995: Germany (Detlef Hofmann, Rene Pflugmacher, Thomas Reineck & Mark Zabel) · 1997: Germany (Torsten Gutsche, Mark Zabel, Björn Bach & Stefan Ulm) · 1998: Germany (Torsten Gutsche, Mark Zabel, Björn Bach & Stefan Ulm) · 1999: Hungary (Zoltán Kammerer, Botond Storcz, Ákos Vereckei & Gábor Horváth) · 2001: Germany (Andreas Ihle, Mark Zabel, Björn Bach & Stefan Ulm) · 2002: Slovakia (Richard Riszdorfer, Michal Riszdorfer, Erik Vlček & Juraj Bača) · 2003: Slovakia (Richard Riszdorfer, Michal Riszdorfer, Erik Vlček & Juraj Bača) · 2005: Germany (Lutz Altepost, Norman Bröckl, Björn Bach & Arnd Goldschmidt) · 2006: Hungary (Ákos Vereckei, Roland Kökény, Lajos Gyökös & Gábor Horváth) · 2007: Germany (Lutz Altepost, Norman Bröckl, Marco Herszel & Björn Goldschmidt) · 2009: Belarus (Vadzim Makhneu, Artur Litvinchuk, Raman Piatrushenka & Aliaksei Abalmasau) · 2010: France (Arnaud Hybois, Étienne Hubert, Sébastien Jouve & Philippe Colin) · 2011: Germany (Norman Bröckl, Robert Gleinert, Max Hoff & Paul Mittelstedt)
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