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Gerd Cintl
German rower
Gerd Cintl (11 December 1938 – 26 December 2017) was a West German rower who competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1960 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Düsseldorf in 1938.[1] At the 1958 European Rowing Championships in Poznań, he won silver in the coxless pair with Horst Effertz.[2] At the 1959 European Rowing Championships in Mâcon, he won gold with the coxed four.[3] In 1960 he was a crew member of the German boat which won the gold medal at the Summer Olympics in the coxed four event.[1] He died on 26 December 2017 in Düsseldorf at the age of 79.[4]