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Rainer Borkowsky
Rainer
Borkowsky
is a
German
rowing coxswain
who
competed
for the
United Team of Germany
in the
1956 Summer Olympics
.
Borkowsky was born in
Frankfurt, Germany
, in
1942
. At the
1956 European Rowing Championships
in
Bled
,
Yugoslavia
, he won a
gold medal
in the
coxed pair
with
rowers
Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck
and
Horst Arndt
. The same team went to the
1956
Summer Olympics
in
Melbourne, Australia
, where they won the
silver medal
in
this boat class
. At the
1957 European Rowing Championships
in
Duisburg, Germany
, they again won a gold medal.