Rainer Osselmann (25 July 1960 – 23 April 2023) was a German
water polo
Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with t ...
player who competed in the
1984 Summer Olympics and in the
1988 Summer Olympics
The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...
.
Osselmann was born in
Duisburg
Duisburg () is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine and the Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruhr Region, Duisburg is the 5th largest city in No ...
. His father,
Friedrich Osselmann, played water polo for West Germany at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics, whereas his mother,
Birgit Klomp, competed in swimming at the 1956 Games.
[
Osselmann died in Amtzell on 23 April 2023, at the age of 62.]
See also
* List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
Men's water polo has been part of the Summer Olympics program since 1900. Hungary men's national water polo team has won sixteen Olympic medals, becoming the most successful country in men's tournament.
There are fifty-nine male athletes who hav ...
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1960 births
2023 deaths
German male water polo players
Olympic water polo players for West Germany
Water polo players at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for West Germany
Olympic medalists in water polo
Sportspeople from Duisburg
Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
20th-century German people
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