Horst Arndt, born on 19 September 1934 in Königsberg and died on 18 October 2014 in Taunusstein, was a West German rower who competed for the United Team of Germany at the 1956 Summer Olympics. A lifelong member of the RG Wiesbaden-Biebrich 1888 rowing club, he won the 1956 European championship in the coxed pair with Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck and the cox Rainer Borkowsky. The same crew then won the silver medal at the Melbourne Olympics and took a second European gold in 1957. A coxed pair is a boat of two rowers and a steering coxswain.
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Born 19 September 1934 in Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad RUS
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was a West German rower who competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1956 Summer Olympics
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The same team went to the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, where they won the silver medal in this boat class
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