Dirk Balster

German rower was on the coxless fours squad at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, when Slovenia took bronze by edging out the Germans in a photo finish by a margin of 0.15 seconds. From 1989-91, Balster won three World Championships with the eights. Domestically, he won the national title with the coxed fours in 1987, 1898, and 1990, the eights from 1989-91, and in Olympic year, 1992, he won the coxless fours title.

Balster became a graduated economist and started his professional career as a management consultant in Hamburg. Later he became CEO of the community clinics at Chemnitz.