SC Berlin-Grünau Sailing Club Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Olympic Gold
The Yacht Club Berlin-Grünau (formerly the sailing division of SC Berlin-Grünau) held a summer festival on Saturday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its first Olympic medals, won at the 1976 Montreal Games. In 1976, Jochen Schümann, then 22, won gold in the Finn Dinghy, while Dieter Below, Michael Zachries, and Olaf Engelhardt took bronze in the Soling class. The club provided all athletes, coaches, and support staff for GDR sailors that year. Over 100 members and guests attended the event at the club grounds on Müggelseedamm, which have been in use since 1902. Three-time Olympic champion Schümann traveled from Bavaria to attend, praising the club's unsung support staff. To date, the club has earned 5 Olympic and 3 Paralympic medals, and since 1956, its sailors have stood on podiums 227 times at World Championships, European Championships, and the Olympics.
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