Wolf-Dieter OSCHLIES

Wolf-Dietrich Oschlies started his international career as a junior. After a fourth place with the eights at the 1969 Junior World Championships, he won a silver medal in coxed fours in 1970. Oschlies’ first senior World Championships medal was a 1977 bronze with the eights. At the 1978 World Championships the German coxed fours came in second only trailing the GDR and in 1979 the West German boat was third winning bronze.

Oschlies’ only Olympic appearance came in Montréal in 1976, when the German eights just missed the medal ranks by placing fourth. When the German boycott of the 1980 Olympics deprived him of a chance for his second Olympics he ended his international career. Oschlies also won a number of German Championships with various boats: coxless pairs in 1975, coxed pairs in 1978 and 1980, coxed fours in 1978-1980, and eights in 1976 and 1978-1980.