Manfred Gelpke
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.jpg) Manfred Gelpke in 1969 | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 3 March 1940 Dresden, Germany | ||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | DHfK | ||||||||||||||
| Occupation | physical education teacher | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 188 cm (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 84 kg (185 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||
| Club | SC Einheit Dresden | ||||||||||||||
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Manfred Gelpke (born 3 March 1940) is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1968 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Dresden and was a member of SC Einheit Dresden. At the 1968 Olympics he was a crew member of the East German boat that won the silver medal in the coxed four event.[1] He later studied at the Deutsche Hochschule für Körperkultur (DHfK) to become a physical education teacher and from 1978, he worked at a school in Dresden.[2]
