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Heinz-Jürgen Bothe

East German rower

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ1599923 ↗
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Heinz-Jürgen Bothe (born 5 November 1941) is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1968 Summer Olympics.

He was born in Berlin.

In 1968 he and his partner Jörg Lucke won the gold medal in the coxless pair event.

References

Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Heinz-Jürgen Bothe". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 6 January 2009.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1941, 1968, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Heinz-Jürgen, Bothe and East can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Heinz-Jürgen Bothe” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.