Dieter Krause

Representing  All-German Team
Olympic Games
1960 Rome K-1 4×500 m
Representing  East Germany
World Championships
1963 Jajce K-4 1000 m
1963 Jajce K-2 1000 m
1958 Prague K-1 500 m
1963 Jajce K-1 4×500 m

Dieter Krause (18 January 1936 – 10 August 2020) was a German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s. He won a gold medal in the K-1 4×500 m event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome (with Paul Lange, Günther Perleberg and Friedhelm Wentzke).

Krause also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1963), a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1963), and two bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1958, K-1 4×500 m: 1963). He was a Stasi informer under the codename "Reiner Lesser".

References
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^ "Leipziger Kanu-Olympiasieger Dieter Krause gestorben". Archived from the original on 24 August 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
^ "1960 Summer Olympics – Rome, Italy – Canoeing" Archived 20 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 6 December 2008)
^ Dieter Krause sports.reference.com (Retrieved on 6 December 2008)
^ Waren doch alle bei der Stasi, Der Spiegel, 23. November 1992
Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint). CanoeICF.com. International Canoe Federation. pp. 1–41 at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 January 2010). Additional archives: 13 January 2016.
Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines. CanoeICF.com. International Canoe Federation. pp. 42–83 at WebCite (archived 9 November 2009). Additional archives: 11 March 2016.
External links
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Dieter Krause at Olympedia
Dieter Krause at Olympics.com
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