Uwe Benter
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Born1 December 1955
Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
RelativesLutz Benter (brother)
SportRowing
ClubHanauer RC Hassia
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| Born | 1 December 1955 Frankfurt am Main, West Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Hanauer RC Hassia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Uwe Benter (born 1 December 1955) is a German coxswain who competed for West Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1955[1][2] and is the younger brother of Lutz Benter (born 1945), also an Olympic rower.[3] He won a gold medal at the 1971 European Rowing Championships in Copenhagen with the coxed four.[4] At the 1972 Summer Olympics, he was the cox of the West German boat that won the gold medal in the coxed four event.[2] At the 1974 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne, he won bronze with the coxed four.[5]