Gerd Cintl

{{short description|German rower}}

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| birth_date = 11 December 1938

| birth_place = Düsseldorf, Germany

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| death_place = Düsseldorf, Germany

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| sport = Rowing

| club = Ruderclub Germania Düsseldorf

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{{MedalSport | Men's rowing}}

{{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games }}

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{{MedalGold| 1960 Rome|Coxed four}}

{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}

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{{MedalSilver | 1958 Poznań | Coxless pair}}

{{MedalGold | 1959 Mâcon | Coxed four}}

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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.{{Cite sports-reference |title = Gerd Cintl |url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ci/gerd-cintl-1.html |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200417221951/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ci/gerd-cintl-1.html |url-status = dead |archive-date = 17 April 2020 |access-date = 21 February 2018 }} At the 1958 European Rowing Championships in Poznań, he won silver in the coxless pair with Horst Effertz.{{cite web |last1=Heckert |first1=Karlheinz |title=Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Zweier ohne Steuermann) |url= http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/r/rudern/hst/65.html |publisher=Sport Komplett |access-date=21 February 2018 | language=de}} At the 1959 European Rowing Championships in Mâcon, he won gold with the coxed four.{{cite web |last1=Heckert |first1=Karlheinz |title=Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Vierer m.Stm.) |url= http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/r/rudern/hst/68.html |publisher=Sport Komplett |access-date=21 February 2018 | language=de}} 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. He died on 26 December 2017 in Düsseldorf at the age of 79.{{cite web | url=http://www.rcgermania.de/nc/aktuelles/aktuelles/wir-trauern-um-gerd-cintl/ | title=Wir trauern um Gerd Cintl | language=de | access-date=21 February 2018 | publisher=Ruderclub Germania Düsseldorf | archive-date=30 December 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230001825/http://www.rcgermania.de/nc/aktuelles/aktuelles/wir-trauern-um-gerd-cintl/ | url-status=dead }}