Hartmut Buschbacher (born 23 April 1958) is a German rowing coach. As a rower, he represented East Germany.

Rowing career

Buschbacher was born in 1958 in

Elsterwerda Elsterwerda (; Lower Sorbian: ''Wikow'') is a town in the Elbe-Elster district, in southwestern Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated on the Black Elster river, 48 km northwest of Dresden, and 11 km southeast of Bad Liebenwerda. Histor ...

. Sources from 1976 vary whether he rowed for ASK Vorwärts

Rostock Rostock (; Polabian language, Polabian: ''Roztoc''), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (), is the largest city in the German States of Germany, state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the sta ...

or for

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. At the 1975

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he won gold with the junior men's coxed four. Partnered with Heiko Schulz at the 1976 World Rowing Junior Championships he won gold in the junior men's coxless pair. At the 1977 East German national championships, he came second in the coxless pair alongside Schulz. At the 1978 East German national championships, he came second with the men's eight. He went to the

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in New Zealand as a reserve but did not compete. He participated in the

1979 Soviet Spartakiad The 7th Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR () was held in the Soviet Union in 1979, with the final stage in July and August 1979. Most events of the final stage were held in Moscow, with Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk, Vilnius, Kaunas, Tallinn and ...

. Buschbacher was one of the 66 rowers who travelled to the

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but only 55 of them competed; he was one of the reserve rowers who did not race.

Coaching career

Buschbacher worked as a rowing coach after his rowing career. From 1985 until 1990, he was the chief coach of the East German women. After the

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in 1990, he went to

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in the United States and trained their national women's team from 1991 until 2000. From 2006 until 2008, he was the chief coach for the Chinese national women's team. At the 2008 Olympics, he agreed to return to Germany to be the chief coach of their national team. He resigned as German coach at the end of 2012 and was succeeded by Marcus Schwarzrock. In 1988, he was awarded a

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(2nd Class) by the East German government for his coaching work at

. Under Buschbacher's guidance,

Kathrin Haacker Kathrin Haacker (born 3 April 1967 in Wismar, Bezirk Rostock) is a German former rower, who competed for SC Dynamo Berlin The Sports Club Dynamo Berlin was an East German sports club that existed from 1954 to 1991. It was the ...

and

Judith Zeidler Judith Ungemach ( Zeidler, born 11 May 1968) is a German-Australian world champion rower and Olympic gold and bronze medalist. Early life and education Zeidler was born in Beeskow, Brandenburg. She started rowing at the age of thirteen at the ...

won gold in the coxless pair at the

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; it was the first East German win in this boat class since 1983. In the following year, Buschbacher coached the women's coxless four and whilst they were the clear favourite at the

1990 World Rowing Championships The 1990 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 31 October to 4 November 1990 at Lake Barrington in Tasmania, Australia. German teams A month prior to the World Championships, Germany completed the polit ...

, they only won silver.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Buschbacher, Hartmut 1958 births East German male rowers People from Elsterwerda Rowing coaches Recipients of the Banner of Labor Living people Rowers from Brandenburg