Rainer Borkowsky

{{short description|German rowing coxswain|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| birth_place = Frankfurt, Germany

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| sport = Rowing

| club = RG Wiesbaden-Biebrich 1888

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{{MedalSport|Men's rowing}}

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{{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games }}

{{MedalSilver| 1956 Melbourne|Coxed pair}}

{{MedalCompetition|European Rowing Championships}}

{{MedalGold|1956 Bled | Coxed pair }}

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Rainer Borkowsky (born 19 October 1942) is a German rowing coxswain who competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Borkowsky was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1942.{{Cite sports-reference |title = Rainer Borkowsky |url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/rainer-borkowsky-1.html |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200417223812/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/rainer-borkowsky-1.html |url-status = dead |archive-date = 17 April 2020 |access-date = 6 March 2018 }} At the 1956 European Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia, he won a gold medal in the coxed pair with rowers Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck and Horst Arndt.{{cite web |last1=Heckert |first1=Karlheinz |title=Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Zweier m. Stm.) |url= http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/r/rudern/hst/66.html |publisher=Sport Komplett |accessdate=4 March 2018| language=de}} The same team went to the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, where they won the silver medal in this boat class. At the 1957 European Rowing Championships in Duisburg, Germany, they again won a gold medal.