About Horst Arndt
Lived 1934 – 2014 (aged 80). Horst Arndt was a German rower.
Horst Arndt (19 September 1934 – 18 October 2014) was a West German rower who competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Arndt was born in Königsberg in 1934, which was then part of Prussia and is now located in Russia and known as Kaliningrad. At the 1956 European Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia, he won a gold medal in the coxed pair with fellow rower Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck and Rainer Borkowsky as cox. The same team went to the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, where they won the silver medal in this boat class. At the 1957 European Rowing Championships in Duisburg, Germany, they again won a gold medal.
Arndt died in 2014 in Taunusstein, Germany.
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Who was Horst Arndt?
West German rower (1934-2014)
When was Horst Arndt born?
Horst Arndt was born on 19 September 1934 in Königsberg.
When did Horst Arndt die?
Horst Arndt died on 18 October 2014 in Taunusstein.
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Horst Arndt was a rower.
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Horst Arndt was German.
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