Jochen Balke
German swimmer
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Nationality | German | |||||||||||
Born | (1917-03-26)26 March 1917 Dortmund, Germany | |||||||||||
Died | 19 January 1944(1944-01-19) (aged 26) Vitebsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||
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Joachim "Jochen" Balke (September 12, 1917 – MIA January 19, 1944) was a German breaststroke swimmer who won a gold medal at the 1938 London European Championship and competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Dortmund and died during World War II.[1]
In 1936 he finished sixth in the 200 metre breaststroke event.[2] In 1938 he finished first at the European Championship in London in the 200 m breaststroke event.
References
- ^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jochen Balke". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 10 October 2012. Retrieved 5 May 2012.
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- 1926: Erich Rademacher (GER)
- 1927: Erich Rademacher (GER)
- 1931: Toivo Reingoldt (FIN)
- 1934: Erwin Sietas (GER)
- 1938: Jochen Balke (GER)
- 1947: Roy Romain (GBR)
- 1950: Herbert Klein (FRG)
- 1954: Klaus Bodinger (GDR)
- 1958: Leonid Kolesnikov (URS)
- 1962: Georgy Prokopenko (URS)
- 1966: Georgy Prokopenko (URS)
- 1970: Klaus Katzur (GDR)
- 1974: David Wilkie (GBR)
- 1977: Gerald Mörken (FRG)
- 1981: Robertas Žulpa (URS)
- 1983: Adrian Moorhouse (GBR)
- 1985: Dmitry Volkov (URS)
- 1987: József Szabó (HUN)
- 1989: Nick Gillingham (GBR)
- 1991: Nick Gillingham (GBR)
- 1993: Nick Gillingham (GBR)
- 1995: Andrey Korneyev (RUS)
- 1997: Aleksandr Gukov (BLR)
- 1999: Stéphan Perrot (FRA)
- 2000: Dmitry Komornikov (RUS)
- 2002: Davide Rummolo (ITA)
- 2004: Paolo Bossini (ITA)
- 2006: Sławomir Kuczko (POL)
- 2008: Grigory Falko (RUS)
- 2010: Dániel Gyurta (HUN)
- 2012: Dániel Gyurta (HUN)
- 2014: Marco Koch (GER)
- 2016: Ross Murdoch (GBR)
- 2018: Anton Chupkov (RUS)
- 2020: Anton Chupkov (RUS)
- 2022: James Wilby (GBR)
- 2024: Lyubomir Epitropov (BUL) and Erik Persson (SWE)
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