Thomas Pfrang

West German flatwater canoeist Thomas Pfrang won three medals at the Flatwater World Championships. He won a K-2 500 gold in 1986 with Reiner Scholl. Both were subsequently awarded the Silver Bay Leaf, Germany’s highest sports award. Pfrang also won a silver medal in 1989 with the K-4 500 with Scholl, Mario von Appen, and the non-Olympian Volker Kreutzer. Pfrang also won a bronze medal in 1987 with the K-4 500 with Scholl, Kreutzer, and Thomas Reineck.

Pfrang also partnered Scholl in the K-2 500 at the 1988 Seoul Olympics when they finished an unfortunate fourth. Domestically, Pfrang won all three K-1, K-2 and K-4 500 titles in 1986, 1988 and 1989.