"1972Z"^^ . "1972-04-16Z"^^ . "Olympic gold medalist canoeist" . . . . "Dittmer, Andreas"@en . . . "Andreas Dittmer (born 16 April 1972 in Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) is a German sprint canoer. The dominant sprint canoer of his generation in 1000 m races, he has won three Olympic and eight world championship gold medals.Dittmer won his first world championship medal - a bronze - at Paris in 1991 as a member of Germany's C-4 500 m crew. In 1994 he won the C-2 1000 m world championship with Gunar Kirchbach. At the 1996 Olympics the pair won the gold medal in the same event."@en .