Stefan Semmler

Stefan Semmler won consecutive rowing gold medals with the coxless fours at the 1976 Montréal and 1980 Moskva Olympics. He also won four coxless fours gold medals (1974-75, 1977 and 1979) and one silver (1978), at the World Championships. In 1973 he won the Europeans with the coxed eights.

Domestically, Semmler won the eights national title in 1973, the coxed fours in 1974, and the coxless fours in 1974-75 and 1977-79. Semmler trained as a telecommunications engineer, but later studied sports at the DHfK Leipzig, and became a water sports coach.