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| Born | 1 January 1969 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||
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Thomas Melges (born 1 January 1969) is a German lightweight rower. He won a gold medal at the 1989 World Rowing Championships in Bled with the lightweight men's quadruple scull. [1]
Lightweight is a weight class in combat sports and rowing.
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