Whitewater slalom singles appeared for the first time at the Olympics at the 1972 München Olympics, where canoe slalom events were held on the canoe slalom course of Augsburg (and for the last time until 1992). East Germany’s Jürgen Köhler came in sixth in the C-1 as the third best East German behind Reinhard Eiben and Jochen Förster. Domestically, he won the C-1 national title in 1968 and with ASK Vorwärts Leipzig the team titles in 1968 and 1971. In 1971 he also won a team gold with the C-1 team at the World Championships. Köhler later became a world class whitewater canoeing coach and took over the national chief coach appointment for Canadian whitewater canoeing.
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