Uwe Benter (born 1 December 1955) is a German coxswain who competed for West Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics.

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (October 2022) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the German article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Uwe Benter]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Uwe Benter}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Quick Facts Personal information, Born ...

Uwe Benter

Benter (cox) at the 1971 European Rowing Championships
Personal information
Born	(1955-12-01) 1 December 1955 (age 68) Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
Relatives	Lutz Benter (brother)
Sport
Sport	Rowing
Club	Hanauer RC Hassia
Medal record Men's rowing Representing  West Germany Olympic Games 1972 Munich Coxed four World Rowing Championships 1974 Lucerne Coxed four European Rowing Championships 1971 Copenhagen Coxed four

Close

He was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1955^[1][2] and is the younger brother of Lutz Benter (born 1945), also an Olympic rower.^[3] He won a gold medal at the 1971 European Rowing Championships in Copenhagen with the coxed four.^[4] At the 1972 Summer Olympics, he was the cox of the West German boat that won the gold medal in the coxed four event.^[2] At the 1974 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne, he won bronze with the coxed four.^[5]