Stephan Fahrig (20 November 1968 to 23 January 2017) was a German lightweight rower, born in Unkel in West Germany, who took up rowing at the age of fourteen. Rowing first for WSV Bad Honnef and later for RTHC Bayer Leverkusen, he won 15 national titles and competed at every World Rowing Championships from 1988 to 1995. He won world championship gold in the lightweight men's four in 1989 and 1990, and bronze in the lightweight men's quad scull in 1992, in the lightweight men's pair with Herbert Vogt in 1993 and in the lightweight men's four in 1994. After his racing career he earned a doctorate in sports science in 2010 with a thesis on the interaction of paired sweep rowers, lived in Berlin, worked in medical equipment distribution and raced bicycles. He died of leukaemia in 2017.
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was a German lightweight rower and a sports scientist
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Fahrig was born in 1968 in Unkel in West Germany.
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over his career, he won 15 national titles
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was a German lightweight rower and a sports scientist
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