Rainer Borkowsky
German rowing coxswain
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Rainer Borkowsky (born 19 October 1942) is a German rowing coxswain who competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1956 Summer Olympics.
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| Born | 19 October 1942 Frankfurt, Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | RG Wiesbaden-Biebrich 1888 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Borkowsky was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1942.[1] At the 1956 European Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia, he won a gold medal in the coxed pair with rowers Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck and Horst Arndt.[2] The same team went to the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, where they won the silver medal in this boat class.[1] At the 1957 European Rowing Championships in Duisburg, Germany, they again won a gold medal.[2]
