Günter Grosswig

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Günter Grosswig
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Men's canoe slalom
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World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1955 Tacen C-2 team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1957 Augsburg C-2 team

Günter Grosswig is a retired East German slalom canoeist who competed in the mid-to-late 1950s. He won two medals in the C-2 team event at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a silver in 1955 and a bronze in 1957. [1]

East Germany Former communist country, 1949-1990

East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic, was a country that existed from 1949 to 1990, when the eastern portion of Germany was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. It described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state", and the territory was administered and occupied by Soviet forces at the end of World War II — the Soviet Occupation Zone of the Potsdam Agreement, bounded on the east by the Oder–Neisse line. The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin but did not include it; as a result, West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the GDR.

The ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships are an international event in canoeing organized by the International Canoe Federation. The World Championships have taken place every year in non-Summer Olympic years since 2002. From 1949 to 1999, they had taken place in odd-numbered years. The 2001 championships were scheduled to take place in Ducktown, Tennessee from 20 to 23 September, but were canceled in the wake of the September 11 attacks.

The 1955 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Tacen, Yugoslavia under the auspices of International Canoe Federation. It was the 4th edition. The Mixed C2 event debuted at these championships.

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References

  1. "Overview of athlete's results". CanoeSlalom.net. Archived from the original on 2 May 2014. Retrieved 2 September 2014.